Justine Elliot (Richmond, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I think the previous speaker, the member for Deakin, really highlighted how incompetent this government is. He did not defend them at all. Absolutely nothing—not one defence. There is nothing he can say to defend his government. It was the same with previous speakers—they could not at all defend their government. What we have here is a government that is completely dysfunctional. They have no unity at all. It is a government at war with itself and in total chaos. This is a government that, for the first time since federation, voted to condemn itself. That is what they did—they are so incompetent. They are in this position because the Prime Minister is so weak that he cannot stand up to anybody—

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