Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I have got a media release, thank you, member for Watson; I've got the media release from the member for Ballarat. I notice the ALP have a little logo that they're now putting on their media releases. It's got a three-word slogan, would you believe; it's all about spin. The three-word slogan we need is this one: 'securing Australia's recovery'. That's what the budget does.

I read the media release closely. There is no underspend. There is no cut. The budget makes for an infrastructure rollout of $110 billion right across the economy. There were 30,000 additional jobs announced last night. As I explained to the member for Ballarat yesterday, what we do is pay on delivery. We pay on milestones. It might be the Labor way to pay for a job that isn't yet completed—they might have done that in those six sorry, dysfunctional, chaotic years—but we pay on delivery. We're getting on with the job. You heard from the Treasurer last night the new commitments we've made, the $15.2 billion of commitments we are making, right across every state and every territory.

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