Melissa Price (Durack, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

something that those on the other side really do not want to hear; I can sense that—with an upward trajectory of another $123 billion forecast for the next four years.

This economic performance was so bad in 2013 that the Labor government were voted out of office with their lowest primary vote since 1931. They are not so noisy now! While Labor were busy destroying our economy, under their watch at least 1,200 people died at sea and, of course, we have all heard about the pink batts disaster. And we only debated yesterday the VET FEE-HELP program, which blew out by 792 per cent—extraordinary and an impressive display of incompetence by any measure.

This is the record that the Turnbull government has been committed to bettering, because the taxpayer of Australia deserved better governance than what has been served up by those opposite.

Dr Chalmers interjecting—

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