Tania Lawrence (Hasluck, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Let's call it for what it is, the opposition leader has failed as a leader. She talks about moving on from culture wars, about constructive disagreement, but her actions—or a lack of them—tell a very different story. When the Liberals try to strip the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander flags from official proceedings and roll back welcome to country ceremonies, she says nothing. That's not leadership; that's fear. Meanwhile, corrosive white-anting within her own caucus is chewing through what little authority she has left. When members of her own party, like the member for Canning, vote to abandon net zero, she stays silent. On the back foot, she frantically suggests a working group, only to have Senator Canavan mock the idea for all to hear. In his own words, 'the coalition are irrelevant', and they don't need a working group to tell us that.

The world is moving forward. Investors are moving towards clean energy. The jobs of the future are here, and where's Sussan Ley? She's hiding behind a slogan—no vision, no backbone, no plan. (Time expired)

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