Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

The summary of this issue, and the reason it is important to people listening to parliament, is that the previous government was absolutely guilty in its budgets of cooking the books. They would pretend that they needed to make no provision for the future, and in that way they were misleading the Australian people on every budget night. And that habit has to stop.

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