David Bradbury (Lindsay, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The ones that we set up, says the member for Mayo—and the ones that clearly were retained for the entire period of the previous government, for a large part of which he was a senior adviser to the government. The reality is that I am not here to defend those that set up this failed system. We are here to introduce an improved system. There are those that will defend the failed system and then, when their defence can no longer be maintained, will say, ‘We didn’t set it up; you set it up.’

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