Pat Conaghan (Cowper, National Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The public know—the Australian people know—that this government is about to rack up $1.2 trillion in debt, and that amounts to $67 million a day in interest. That's $160 billion higher than when this government first came into power. Now, I've been listening to a number of these speeches—I was here for an hour on table duty earlier—and I heard countless stories from the other side that I would love to be able to tell about my electorate: sports stadiums and infrastructure and funding for roads—

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