Tim Hammond (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I tell you what. You thought the measures in this budget were bad. You thought they were no good. When it comes to what is being handed out for Western Australia, the zombie measures in this budget look like Olympic-grade triathletes! Not only is there no new money for Western Australia, regardless of what the member for Tangney would like to have us believe; but we go backwards. There is no new money for infrastructure, no new money for rail and none for road. We lose $500 million from education and health over the forward estimates. Sure, we might get a measly top-up of 226 for the GST. It is not even a drop in the bucket.

I encourage the Treasurer to get out his calculator and listen to this number. That sends Western Australia backwards by $274 million. Not only does it send us backward in relation to health and education; but it sends us backwards in relation to the overall cuts to education. There is $2.4 billion ripped out of Western Australian education systems over the course of the next 10 years. This mob should hang their heads in shame.

Not only that; they have squibbed it on the banks. They have squibbed it on housing affordability. They have squibbed it everywhere you look in this budget. We do not have a damp squib here; we have a messy, sodden, soaking hot mess. That is this government. That is this budget. (Time expired)

Mr Robert interjecting—

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