Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable member's question reminds many of us how scant and sparse are the pleasures of opposition. We have been getting on with governing. We have been getting on with forging new free trade deals, creating new markets for Australian exporters and creating jobs. We have been creating the circumstances that will see $2¼ billion invested in central and north Queensland. We have seen the ability this week to defend the rights of 60,000 Country Fire Authority volunteers. We have been able to do that. We have been able to stand up for the heroes who stand up and fight for us when nature flings her worst at us—people that Labor abandoned. We defended them and we got that legislation through. We did that because we are in government. We have reduced taxes on middle-income-earning Australians. We have done all those things just this week. What does the Leader of the Opposition have to savour? Some games in the House—a pious amendment was his little win. Well, we will not begrudge him his small pleasures, but we will get on with the job of governing for all Australians.

Mr Bowen interjecting—

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