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

I think the Leader of the Opposition is trying to suggest that somehow a six-week gestation period was inadequate—this from a political party that cooked up the National Broadband Network on the back of a coaster on a VIP flight. Really and truly! The Medical Research Future Fund is a policy based on endowment funds that were created under the former government and for which there is an abundance of precedent in Australian government. If members opposite were more interested in government and less interested in grandstanding, and if they were more interested in policy and less interested in politicking, they would know that well.

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