House debates Matters of Public Importance

Education Funding

Wednesday, 3 February 2016 House of Representatives

Alex Hawke

Alex Hawke Mitchell, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Treasurer

3:26 pm

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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