Patrick Gorman (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Maybe I've been unfair on the member for Goldstein by saying that he only has one policy, which is to give himself a day off for the Melbourne Cup. He has another policy. Just a few weeks after the election last year he dived in with Ronald Mizen at the AFR with this headline: 'Liberals' IR man Tim Wilson wants school kids taking up 'side hustles''. So we've got 'bring back child labour' and 'give the politicians a day off for the Melbourne Cup'. That is what we've got from someone who's been described by a mutual friend of ours, former member for Mackellar, Jason Falinski, as possibly the next Liberal leader.

It's amazing to see, if you go back all the way to May last year, the foresight that Mr Falinski had about what was going to happen in the Liberal Party. He wrote this:

Gather round—all who dare—as the Liberal Party indulges in its triennial version of The Hunger Games.

Well, indeed, they've gone longer than the book series did. But Mr Falinski also said one thing which I think both sides of the chamber would agree on, and it was this quote—to be clear, before someone gets up with an interjection, I'm just quoting.

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