Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business (House)) Share this | Hansard source

With each of the issues, we now see that the government is so willing to change stated beliefs, is so willing to change convictions that it held so strongly, that it would have the longest question time in the history of Federation. It is willing to get rid of legislation about which it spent months and months saying to Labor, 'Unless you support this, you support higher electricity prices,' and then all of a sudden they won't bring it to a vote. And in every case now we see a Prime Minister who is willing, for the purpose of strategy, to change what he has told people he believes to avoid a defeat on the floor. The next election can't come soon enough.

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