Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

This government always looks to do what is right for the Australian people. That is what we do. What I really enjoy is the party that pretended to be the party of lower taxes, lower debt and lower deficit—Senator Hume, now the deputy leader, led them to an election, with the man who is now the Leader of the Opposition, guaranteeing more debt, larger deficits and higher taxes. Now they want us to believe they have returned to a lower-taxing ideology, after they went to the last election saying they wanted higher taxes and more debt—quite remarkable. I would say to those opposite: maybe work out what you stand for and who you are before you start lecturing others about anything to do with policy and politics.