Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The National Security Committee of the cabinet, the Expenditure Review Committee of the cabinet, all the cabinet committees, the cabinet itself—they are all getting on with good government. I really love this fixation by members opposite on last week's cabinet meeting, because last week's cabinet meeting decided to strip citizenship from terrorists with dual nationalities. It has taken members opposite some eight days of playing politics to finally come up and support this eminently sensible measure that the government decided upon early last week. Members opposite can ask me any number of questions about process. They can ask me any number of questions about who said what, when and what was decided by whom and under what circumstances. They can ask me any number of those insider questions and all my answers will be about what matters to the people of Australia, and what matters to the people of Australia is that this government knows where it stands on national security. We know where we stand on national security. We are absolutely crystal clear that someone who raises a gun or a knife to any Australian because of who we are has absolutely forfeited any right to be considered one of us. While we are concentrating on national security, the opposition—

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