Michael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Social Services) Share this | Hansard source

Sure. The Prime Minister, and the caucus up here presumably, support very strongly the decision of the state Labor Party to ban gas connections, making families ever more reliant on expensive electricity. They can't run away from this. They can't hide. The Labor members that sit up here in the caucus are Labor members who, in many cases, are supported in their preselection by the Socialist Left, which is controlled by Daniel Andrews in the Labor Party in Victoria. He is omnipresent in the Victorian Labor Party. He runs the place. I suspect many of the Labor members who sit in the caucus up here are only here because they're very close allies of Daniel Andrews or his radical Socialist Left members in the Victorian government.

Why did the Victorian government cancel the Commonwealth Games? Because they're broke. They've run out of money. For the older Victorians and Australians out there it would be no surprise that a Labor government has come in and spent all the money, and now there's no more money. At some point debt starts to control you. I don't think anyone believes that Daniel Andrews and the Labor Party wanted to cancel the Commonwealth Games. They had to. Why? Because the debt's now controlling them. Debt in Victoria is higher than in New South Wales, Queensland, Tasmania and, I think, South Australia combined. That's just one state. That is debt that will be borne by generations of Victorians, thanks to Victorian Labor and their caucus members that sit up here in Anthony Albanese's government. I don't really know how anybody—

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