Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I think 'Brutus Beefcake' over there was just sorry he did not make it to the actual screen last night. What this man, Mr Kitchener, said, quoting Mark Arbib, was that you 'could not trust Bill Shorten', that 'he would do Julia in', and that 'he would use the union base to knock her off. Now, that could well be the clue we have been searching for. He would use the union base to knock her off. Maybe that is what motivates him not to support the government's reforms. I hope the member for Corio and the members for Maribyrnong, Isaacs, McEwen and Gellibrand can trust the Leader of the Opposition, because, of course, they all benefited from the 'Shorten coup'. Bill, I hope you can trust yourself! You have let everybody else down over the years. Rudd could not trust you, Gillard could not trust you and Arbib did not trust you, and he would know because he knocked off two premiers.

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