Anne Webster (Mallee, National Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Development, Local Government and Territories) Share this | Hansard source

This budget from the Labor Party is a Trojan Horse. It looks okay on the outside, but dig a little deeper and you find out that, for regional Australians in particular, it is a shocker. We already bear the brunt and the cost of the renewable fantasy that this government has stuck to like glue. The cost to our communities is division. The cost to our communities is that we cannot get on with the jobs that already should be happening in our electorates.

Our farming land is being taken over by renewable enterprises funded by this government. Do we know where the funding comes from for these projects? No. We don't know, because they're hidden in clever entities such as the CIS, the CEFC and the National Reconstruction Fund. The list goes on. Australians are kept in the dark, and they don't know what is coming for them.

In point of fact, it is a socialist dystopia that Bill Shorten tried to bring in—capital gains tax and attacks on negative gearing and trusts. What else do they want to do? There was nothing honest—

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