Scott Buchholz (Wright, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Not only are we better legislators and better with money; we're actually more respectful, Madam Deputy Speaker. We have great respect for the House, being well aware, of course, of the standing orders in this place.

But I do want to take those in the gallery on a journey of what happened in the lead-up to the 12 months prior to these backflips and broken promises being brought to the House. I will recap how it started. Last year the Australian Labor Party went on a crusade, with a commitment of $450 million being spent on a referendum in Australia that was overwhelmingly rejected by every single state in the country.

You can't rewrite history, those on the other side. It was lost by every single state. That is $450 million that we will never get back.

There were hundreds of detainees let loose by those on the other side, those in the government. In question time today we spoke about how many of them had committed extreme crimes—murderers, paedophiles—that would not be acceptable in any—

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