Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Shadow Minister for Immigration and Citizenship) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I second the motion. If I could take you back to the circumstances from which this dissent motion has arisen, the Deputy Prime Minister has moved a ludicrous, ridiculous and embarrassingly foolish motion in the House to suspend standing orders today to move a particularly foolish motion. The opposition, quite rightly, are incensed that the government, having not made the transition to government, would reduce the House to this mockery rather than getting on with the business of government. The Australian today has made a point in its own editorial about how this government is big on symbolism and very short on making decisions in government. Unfortunately, today in this lunchtime debate the government is fulfilling the worst thoughts of the editorial in the Australian. The circumstances of this dissent motion—

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