• Liberal Party Representative for North Sydney
• Shadow Treasurer (since 3 Mar 2011)
  Shadow Treasurer (since 16 Feb 2009)
• Entered House of Representatives on 2 March 1996 — General election
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Matters of Public Importance: Budget (15 May 2013)

“I confess that I genuinely wanted last night's budget to be a good budget. After five budgets of overblown rhetoric and broken promises from this Labor government, I believed that Australia's finances were in a mess. I wanted the Treasurer's sixth budget to set us straight. I expected he would come clean about the state of play. I expected that he would identify the reasons why the budget was...”

Matters of Public Importance: Budget (15 May 2013)

“That is meant to be the floating price! But what is patently clear is that if they do not have a satisfactory floating market-based price they are going to reintroduce the tax! That is what their budget assumes. Fundamentally, they are changing policy in the budget. Spending relative to GDP will be higher in every year of the forward estimates than it was in the final two years of the...”

Questions without Notice: Budget (15 May 2013)

“My question is to the Treasurer. In his National Press Club speech the Treasurer claimed that there is a fiscal consolidation in the budget of $23 billion. Given that, as a percentage of the economy, at no time has this government had spending as low as the last year of the coalition government and given that, over the next four years, the government is expecting to spend $76 billion more and...”

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• Has spoken in 122 debates in the last year — well above average amongst Representatives.
• People have made 1 comment on this Representative's speeches — average amongst Representatives.
• This Representative's speeches are understandable to an average 16–17 year old, going by the Flesch-Kincaid Grade Level score.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 589 times in debates — well above average amongst Representatives. (Why is this here?)