Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The first piece of advice I would give to Senator Chisholm—through you, Mr President—is not to believe everything you read in the newspaper. The second thing I would say is that the winners of this are the communities of Ipswich and Townsville, which have benefited from a decision by the Liberal-National Party government.

The Liberal-National Party government is very proud to support high-quality community infrastructure in communities right across Australia. Is the Labor Party saying it doesn't support the grants to the Ipswich project? Is that what you're saying, Senator Chisholm? Is Senator Chisholm saying that they're bad projects? If you think that, say so. If you think that they don't deserve that particular grant, I think you should say so.