James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party, Shadow Assistant Minister to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Ninety-seven times! Sold. Sold. Sold. Senator Askew wins by guessing correctly that the Labor government promised 97 times before the last election that they would cut your power bills.

What is interesting about this chamber is it's often not what is said in the chamber, as interesting as that can be sometimes. What is more interesting is what is not said in this chamber. There are three numbers, and when you put them together, they become one large number. There are three numbers that have not been said in this chamber since the election by a member of the Labor Party. It's like they've taken a secret blood oath, or maybe a spit oath—I don't know what type of oath they take in the Labor Party—where they've all agreed in their caucus meeting, where they've all held hands and done a little dance, and said, 'We will not say these three figures in the chamber.'

For the decorum of this chamber, I will not run an auction on what people might think those figures are, but I am going to say those figures. You will not hear a member of the Labor Party say the number 2, you will not hear a member of the Labor Party say the number 7, you will not hear a member of the Labor Party say the number 5 and I will bet a year's worth of eggs from my chooks on my farm that they will never, ever say 275 together.