Ms HENDERSON (Corangamite) (16:10): I rise to make a contribution on this MPI by reminding members opposite and the Australian people that we have had an incredible number of achievements in the first year. We have repealed the carbon tax, a tax that in my region in Geelong and Corangamite was completely toxic. It was a tax that lost jobs, a tax that drained small businesses of confidence and a tax that caused a $1.1 billion hit on manufacturing. Members opposite know this. Opposition members interjecting— Ms HENDERSON: The member for Charlton knows this; this was an insidious tax in a proud manufacturing centre like the city that I represent in part—Geelong. This was an extremely damaging tax and we have proudly repealed that carbon tax. The Australian people know that, come hell or high water, in the next election we will see the carbon tax return under Labor. Labor has made that clear and we are determined to fight those taxes that cause such damage to our economy and to jobs growth. We have repealed the mining tax—another toxic tax so damaging for jobs, so damaging for productivity and so damaging to our economy. We have effectively stopped the boats. We have saved the Australian taxpayer billions of dollars in stopping the boats and we can see from the members opposite when the minister stands before them and talks about our achievements that it is an absolute and utter embarrassment to them. It is an embarrassment: the way in which they flip-flopped on that policy for six years. We said we would do it, we are doing it and we have done it. We are building the roads of the 21st century. Our infrastructure Prime Minister knows how important it is to invest in local communities and particularly in the regions. And we are fixing the budget—and, oh boy, what a job that is! The member for Griffith invited us to take responsibility. We are taking responsibility, because as the member for Lilley said to Senator Carr, the situation that members opposite created when they were in government was 'fiscally ruinous'. 'Fiscally ruinous': they were the words out of the former Treasurer's mouth. Six hundred and sixty-seven billion dollars of debt; $191 billion of cumulative deficits after promising they would deliver four consecutive surpluses! Members opposite have failed fundamentally to— Ms Butler: Mr Deputy Speaker Kelly, I rise on a point of order. The member well knows that it was actually the Treasurer who doubled the deficit, increasing the deficit to nearly— The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Craig Kelly ): Order! There is no point of order. The member for Corangamite has the call. Ms HENDERSON: It is unfortunate that the member opposite does not understand the standing orders. That is not a point of order. I just quickly want to touch on the broken promises we have heard about the carbon tax and the surpluses, and the promise for a company tax cut which, again, was another broken promise that we are delivering on. Again, this is so important for small business. There were the cruel cuts. Look at what we are proudly doing in our budget. I heard a member the other day saying, 'Get rid of the budget.' Our budget is delivering the National Disability Insurance Scheme— Mr Conroy: We'll pay for it— Ms HENDERSON: You are laughing! Absolutely—with the headquarters. Under your budget you delivered a $44.9 million cut to NDIS support packages, which we reversed in our budget. We funded it within the agreed funding envelope as well, all the way through until it is a $22 billion scheme. And we are very proudly hosting the NDIS headquarters in Geelong. It is a very good example of our government listening and caring and, yes, working with the previous government in a bipartisan way. But the scare campaign that members opposite ran in relation to the funding of the NDIS was an absolute disgrace. The twisted priorities: we heard the member for Grayndler claiming today—twice, and claiming falsely unfortunately—that no infrastructure projects we announced have started, that there are no bulldozers. I want to correct the record and make members opposite aware, even though I think the member for Grayndler is aware, that the Great Ocean Road project, a fantastic project in our region, is underway with $25 million from the federal government and $25 million from the state government. That is a project that Labor opposed. They did not understand how important it is for tourism. Another project is the East-West Link, which is so important for our economy; it is creating 6,000 jobs. It is an absolute disgrace that you are standing in the way of a project that is so important for jobs for our region. (Time expired) The DEPUTY SPEAKER ( Mr Craig Kelly ): Order! The time for this discussion has concluded.