Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Hansard source

The coalition senators will not support this motion, not so much because of what it says as because of the stench of hypocrisy which surrounds it. At the last federal election, the efficiency dividend was a very big issue in the ACT. The coalition proposed, as members will know, a two per cent efficiency dividend across the Public Service. The Labor Party and the Greens strongly opposed this. In fact, the ALP said that, if elected, it would tolerate no increase in the efficiency dividend applying to the Public Service.

Honourable senators interjecting—