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

Apart from the fact that the college is called the North East Vocational College, as opposed to north-west—but I am prepared to overlook yet another bit of sloppy work by the Manager of Opposition Business on behalf of his leader, for which I would have been sacked when I was the Manager of Opposition Business, I can tell you, under the current member for Warringah—

Opposition members interjecting—

who would never have put up with me making such a fundamental error. But let's pretend that the question was correct. The simple fact is that being lectured by the Labor Party on these matters shows a great audacity. The Leader of the Opposition has shown a preparedness to tell the great big Labor lie for most of his political career—in fact, the Mediscare campaign really took the cake. But, now, rather than focusing on the issues that mums and dads in Australia care about—things like energy prices, energy security, issues with their incomes through social security or tax cuts or how they are going to pay their mortgages on their homes, housing affordability or, in fact, even national security issues, like what is going on at the moment in Mosul, Raqqa and elsewhere in the world—the Labor Party is trying to blacken the name of former Senator Bob Day and cast aspersions on the reputations of senators.

It shows a particular audacity for the member for Maribyrnong, the Leader of the Opposition, to wade into the issue of who should or should not be in the Senate, because we all know that he has amongst his number Senator Kimberley Kitching sitting in the Senate representing Victoria right now.

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