Jason Falinski (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not sure if I can still stand after that withering attack, but I'll do my best. I've got to say thanks for the comedy show of the last 30 minutes. It's been just wonderful! We've now had doublespeak worthy of George Orwell: it's not a carbon price, it's not a carbon tax, it's carbon architecture. Coming to you in 2019, people of Australia: carbon architecture—just look forward to it. That'll solve all your problems. Then it was: 'The problem is privatisation. If we hadn't privatised stuff, it would all have been fine.' I must have been dreaming in New South Wales between 2003 and 2011, when prices shot up over 250 per cent when it was government-owned. Who owned it, again? That's right—Eddie Obeid, Bob Carr, Joe Tripodi, Ian Macdonald. The list just keeps going on. We will make sure you wear those names for as long as the Labor Party gets elected to any parliament in Australia. Joe Tripodi, Bob Carr, Ian Macdonald—we don't need anything more!

We have just listened to five minutes of 'we need a plan'. When the member asked—

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