Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

and we have cranes and bulldozers operating right across the country. I am asked: what is the risk to this prosperity build? What is the risk to the green shoots that are now turning into spring shoots? I will tell you what the risk is, it is the Labor Party—the Labor Party that wants to bring back the carbon tax, the Labor Party that wants to bring back the mining tax, the Labor Party that made a mess of taxation reform and taxing government. And now they are making a mess of it in the Senate and they are making a mess of it in their own policies—as we will find out a bit more over the next few days. The only— (Time expired)

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