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

That's why I'm not sure Senator Paterson was being especially helpful to the Liberal cause when he described the member for Hume as 'the smartest policy brain in shadow cabinet'! You can read that one or two ways. I don't know what's more worrying: that it's false or that it might be true. As the Minister for Climate Change and Energy says, we are focused on the big issues in our economy and the big challenges in our economy. We're focused on the numbers in the budget; those opposite are focused on the numbers in the Liberal party room. It reminds us once again that they can rearrange the clowns all they like over there, but it will still be the same three-ring circus.

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