Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party never learns. Here they are this week, question after question, wasting an opportunity to ask questions about the real issues facing the people of Australia. If you were interested in the people of Canning as you suggested in your question then you might be asking things which actually go to the people of Canning's interests such as the economic prosperity of this country, such as the safety and the security of the people of this country. But none of that comes from the members opposite. In the safety and security of this country, the candidate for Canning, Andrew Hastie, is someone who has put himself on the line for the people of this country. That is why we take the safety and security of the citizens of this country so strongly and so significantly.

That is why, for example, we have put in a continuous build—

Ms Chesters interjecting—

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