Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

You do not like hearing it. You would rather come out with the exceptions rather than the rule. Okay, there were issues in some of the programs. We understand that, but, I tell you what, many, many thousands of people got home insulation and it is safely installed and they are happy about that. If you want to tell me that all your schools in Wannon do not accept their BER projects as being important and greatly needed, then I will fly—and you know it! Yet they trot this rubbish out each time. I just want to remind them. I would like also to remind those opposite, particularly the member for Wannon, as he is rushing out the door, that this opposition’s record in terms of financial responsibility is appalling. In the last election—quickly forgotten by all those opposite—there was an $11 billion gaping, thumping, monstrous black hole! They don’t want to know about it.

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