Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed I am doing so, Mr Speaker. Those opposite say this is about communism. Those opposite took a public monopoly, turned it into a private monopoly and called it reform. That was their policy objective. This is what the member for Bradfield described their failure as:

… the equivalent of Qantas owning all the airports. The result: competition is weak.

This is what the member for Wentworth said about the failure of the former government's 20 different plans:

It was honestly a failure of imagination on our part in government.

That is what he had to say and he was right. He is right about the mad monk, he is right about Lord Monckton and he is right about this.

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