Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Infrastructure) Share this | Hansard source

I asked the shadow minister if she had received a phone call from the minister in relation to some compromise on this bill, and the answer was: no. The minister is too lazy to even pick up the phone.

So we have a pattern emerging here: lazy, indolent, unwilling to compromise. We can have reform today if they only grasp the nettle.

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