George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

You know, Senator Dastyari, I was wondering if you might give me something for Christmas, and you have delivered. You have delivered with a very generous Christmas question, the last question of the year. When the Prime Minister was referring to runs on the board, he was referring, for example to the runs that Senator Simon Birmingham had put on the board in his reforms of the VET sector and training, which have saved the Australian taxpayer billions of dollars by salvaging a scheme which your side, in government, made a complete and abject mess of. He is referring to people like Senator Arthur Sinodinos, the cabinet secretary, a wiser and more experienced servant of the Australian people—