Josh Burns (Macnamara, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I love a good headline. Our friends at the Daily Aus had a great one, 'The 20 per cent HECS debt discount has been introduced to parliament' and that was on 23 July. What a fantastic headline by an up-and-coming media outlet. There were a couple of other headlines that caught my attention of late. There was one in the Sydney Morning Herald on 27 June, and it read 'Taylor undercuts Ley on gender quotas, saying they 'subvert democracy''. It only took a couple of days, and the shadow Treasurer was there ready and waiting to undercut the leader. But he's not the only one. It seems to be fashionable in the coalition these days to take a couple of days and then announce a policy that is in direct contradiction to the Liberal leader.

The Leader of the Opposition took a principled stance at the opening of parliament, where she backed in the appropriate and respectful conduct of a welcome to country, and I congratulate the Leader of the Opposition on that. Although—

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