House debates Guarantee Scheme for Large Deposits and Wholesale Funding Appropriation Bill 2008

Second Reading

Tuesday, 25 November 2008 House of Representatives

Chris Pearce

Chris Pearce Aston, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law

8:38 pm

Can I start by saying that I think it is always interesting to hear a new member to this House carrying on about how they perceive the other side of the House. I was just chatting with my honourable colleague at the table, the member for Denison, who has been here three times as long as I have. I recommend to the member for Lindsay that maybe in the forthcoming Christmas-New Year period—I hope that he will have the opportunity to relax with his family—if he has any time, he might care to order just a few videos of his party during 13 years in opposition. He referred to the opposition playing politics and political point-scoring. I would just say to the new member for Lindsay—he has only been here for one year—that I really recommend that he does a bit of research about his own side of politics before he starts firing some pot shots at us. I have been here for 7½ years, and every day for 7½ years I have heard nothing but the Australian Labor Party playing politics with everything possibly known to man. So I think it is interesting to hear new members, in their naivety, try to present themselves in a way that makes them holier than thou.

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