Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

That would have driven him crazy. So what we have here is a government that is divided fundamentally on not just personality but policy. The reason they cannot do anything is they cannot agree on anything. Everybody in this building knows that only the Nationals have really got a policy agenda, and that is to send some poor vets down to—where are they going? I cannot remember, but they are being sent to the four ends of the earth. Let us hope that Norfolk Island is not transferred into the member for New England's electorate, otherwise people are going to get a very rude shock. This government is completely at war with itself, and it will not last the distance.

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