Ted O'Brien (Fairfax, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

He didn't like those comments, and I thought it was for that very reason—that, maybe, it was not the sort of thing that one should say. However, with the fact that Henry VIII clauses are coming in, we now realise the reason he was offended. He didn't want to be a 'Sir'. Why be knighted by the sovereign when you can become the sovereign? Why not? Why not become the royal from Rankin? All hail King Taxalot, the Treasurer of Australia!

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