Julie-Ann Campbell (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's already March, but it seems like whenever we come down to this place there's another coalition party leadership contest. This week is no different because yesterday, as the dust settled on the latest salvo in one of the coalition party rooms, we saw the fifth leader appointed in less than one year. Count them: five. We had the member for Dickson. We had the member for Farrer. We had the member for Hume and the member for Maranoa, and we now have Senator Canavan.

Yesterday, Senator Canavan said, 'We must fight for what we truly believe in.' We know what Senator Canavan believes in, so let's take a look. Senator Canavan doesn't believe in net zero. In fact, he doesn't believe in it so much that he called climate science 'fear porn'. Senator Canavan doesn't believe that farmers are the National Party's core constituency. Senator Canavan thinks that the solution to housing is for young people to raid their super, and Senator Canavan's vision for Australian women is for them to have more babies.

One thing is abundantly clear. It doesn't matter who sits in an opposition leadership chair, what's clear is that their priority is not the Australian people. Their priority is themselves.

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