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

Thank you. I was going for that. Their arguments have been almost as thin as a homeopathic soup made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that starved to death. This is terrible.

Is this a government that isn't doing it? In my own electorate we have a new $1½ billion hospital, a $1 billion road, $250 million for road widening, $2 million for a surf-lifesaving club, $1.5 million for a new clubhouse for the football association—which I'm informed is not soccer—$500,000 for solar panels on golf clubs, a 62 per cent increase in education funding per student in public schools, and two kids in Terrey Hills now able to afford lifesaving drugs and able to live full lives because of the management of this government and its ability to put lifesaving drugs on the PBS. That is what government is about. That's what hope is about. That is what opportunity is about. That's what government looks like when you're not always asking a focus group how to run your party. It's just appalling. You should all be ashamed of yourselves. I'm sorry, there I go again being critical of you. Sorry, I didn't mean to do that.

This MPI is a blunder so epic it requires an orchestra to introduce it. It needs one of the orchestras that they had for Star Wars. We've found in the last five days that the Labor Party want to talk about us because they are in favour of increased taxes but are against drought relief. It's like an episode of The Vicar of Dibley'No, no, no, yes. We were in favour.' Then we had on border security, 'No, no, no. It's so bad. It's unconstitutional, but yes.' This is what we have from the Labor Party—no ideas and no clues. They are about to fall in over themselves.

But there is one thing that they will stand up for—trade union officials who break the law. Anyone watching Sky today would have seen the President of the ACTU claiming that it is unions that stop wage theft, especially in the restaurant industry. She was asked, 'What did you guys do around that theft?' She said: 'There were lots of people involved, lots of players involved. We were there. We did something. We saw it happening.' Then there was: 'But we were told that the workers rang the union and the union didn't return the phone calls. Is that right?' She said: 'Yes. Well, that can happen sometimes. They're very busy.' Isn't that why they finally went to the Fair Work Ombudsman, an ombudsman whose budget you, the Labor Party, cut by 20 per cent? You guys say you believe in all this stuff, but all you want to do is sound good; you don't actually want to do any good. It's a compare-and-contrast situation. When you guys were in government, you did a horrible job. You led on debt and deficit. You led an economy that was going down the drain. You did nothing about protecting workers, and you did nothing about lawlessness on Australian worksites. You're still in here claiming you're an opposition, but you're not even that.

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