Alex Hawke (Mitchell, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

No, it was not me, sadly enough. Who said: 'We cannot pretend we can go on spending as though nothing has happened. The world has trimmed us down. We now have to trim ourselves down'? Was that Adam Smith? It sounds like something he might have said. No, it would not have been him.

An honourable member interjecting—

He is dead. Good point. He is no longer around. He would not have said it.

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