Joanne Ryan (Lalor, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to follow the member for Gippsland, who had the 'chutzpah'—he used the word a few times—to come in here today to speak about a Victorian issue, but to speak about ministers resigning because of sports rorts, but suggesting they were Victorian ministers when everybody in this place knows there was a minister who resigned over sports rorts. It was a minister who resigned over sports rorts; it was a federal minister in the previous government. In fact, it was a national minister in the former government that the member for Gippsland might want to remember.

There is no-one more disappointed than me that Victoria won't be hosting the Commonwealth Games. I don't live in regional Victoria. In fact, I represent a city that has grown fast to 320,000—

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