Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I know this is difficult for members opposite, but in a deregulated system fees can move up and fees can move down.

What can be guaranteed in a deregulated system, in a market system, is that institutions will not try to price themselves out of the market. All I can assume is that the shadow minister opposite thinks that institutions are so stupid that they will destroy themselves. Well, they are not. They are not. We will give them the freedom that they need to be as good as they can be, and I do not know why members opposite are so frightened of freedom. Why are members opposite so frightened of freedom? Why do they think so ill and so little of our institutions that they want to keep them in chains?

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