Senator ROBERTS (Queensland) (17:54): As a servant to the people of Queensland and Australia, I want to discuss this issue of infrastructure spending because it leads to the topic of productive capacity, and that's something I talk about repeatedly because that is the future of our country. Before doing so, though, I'll quote an executive member of a prominent Liberal metropolitan branch in Australia, a member of the Liberal Party. He called my office today to congratulate me on the questions I asked of Senator McKenzie yesterday. His words were 'fantastic' and then, as he said, 'It's wicked what's happening to New South Wales.' Before the Labor Party jumps with glee and says, 'Well, there's a prominent Liberal actually condemning the Liberal Party on infrastructure,' in fact he would not applaud the Labor Party. He was really complimenting the need to discuss infrastructure and dams. The Labor Party doesn't learn. It repeatedly raises this issue to bag the Liberal Party, but, while we agree with many of the criticisms, we actually end up proving that the Labor Party is aligned with the Liberal Party. So let me do that again. The original Labor Party chalked up many, many accomplishments. Labor politician Bill McKell pushed the Snowy River scheme and even threatened to invoke a state of emergency if the Liberals did not get on board. But nowadays, the Labor Party follows the Greens. There's no evidence on what's going on with the climate, but the Labor Party follows the Greens. The Greens go on ideological opposition. They refuse to build dams; the Labor party agrees. They try to shut down the use of coal; the Labor Party agrees. What we see is the destruction of energy, hospital beds, traffic, tax and immigration, the same things as the Liberal Party— (Time expired)