Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Oh, yes, you all have. That's what you all said to do: try to create chaos in the parliament. We've read it every day. We've read about your cunning plans to create mayhem in the House of Representatives. We haven't heard anything about the first ever national strategy to protect Australians from terrorism in crowded places. We haven't heard anything from the Labor Party about that. That's what we have set out.

We haven't heard any support at all for our drug-testing trials. We believe welfare money should not be spent on drugs and alcohol. So do most Australians, and so does anybody that cares about somebody who is in the grip of alcoholism or substance abuse. But the Labor Party won't support us on that. We have heard snide remarks, backtracking and hedging on the cashless welfare card, which has meant that, in the communities where it has operated to date, we have seen a dramatic reduction in alcohol abuse, in substance abuse, in domestic violence, in public violence. We've done that. We've rolled that out.

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