Jim Chalmers (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

So this is the feedback from Malcolm Turnbull, the feedback from Peter Costello and also the feedback from some of the member for Hume's colleagues, who said to Sam Maiden that he was 'an absolute disaster' in that role. Another one told Karen Barlow that everything he touches 'turns to custard'. He was a disaster as energy minister. He was a disaster as shadow Treasurer. The definition of insanity would be to put someone with a disastrous track record into the top job, hoping things would be different.

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