Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

through complex preference swaps, is something that committee should very justifiably be looking at and what steps can be taken to ensure that people's votes are properly reflected in the Upper House.

Where was the member for McMahon when this matter was discussed? I understand the member for Isaacs and the member for Batman went to bat for the member for Brand, but those opposite decided to welch on the JSCEM report. It is clear that the Labor Party's real principle—that your vote is always safer in their hands rather than in your own—is alive and well with the spivs that are now running the Labor Party. It is the backroom deals done in ski lodges in Thredbo that the member for Watson is very familiar with. That is the sort of spiv politics that we are seeing from those opposite in this House and in the Senate— (Time expired)

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