Senate debates

Thursday, 30 October 2014

Questions without Notice

Women in Cabinet

2:58 pm

Photo of Michaelia CashMichaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I was getting to the Prime Minister, when he was the Leader of the Opposition, telling the Australian people about the shadow cabinet that we would be taking to the election and the fact that at that time it included two women. He said, 'Because of the level of debt that we are going to inherit from the other side, we believe that we require experience.' Our now cabinet has 15 ministers who were in the former Howard government ministry. What do all those ministers have in common? They paid off the former Labor government's debt from 1996 to 2007. At the end of the day— (Time expired)

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