Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

We want to get on with the business of the House. We want to get on with dealing with the government’s legislative timetable. It is the government that have suspended their own standing orders to bring on a motion full of politics, vitriol and rhetoric—the same old tired stuff that they had been running in opposition. They ran it in opposition. They won the election; we accept that they won the election. But now that they are in government they actually have to make some decisions. I know it is going to come as a rude shock to the Treasurer, who should be out there studying the economics books rather than in here being party to a political stunt. Economics for Dummieswe’ll send you a copy.

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