Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for his very broad question. Of course, the member for Hume promised that they'd be better off if they made him leader. He promised that if they made him leader then they would have this wave of success going forward. What happened, of course, was that the member for Farrer, who wasn't even allowed to have a budget reply, was undermined from day one as the first female leader of the Liberal Party. Then he got together with the member for Canning, on the day of the funeral of one of their former colleagues, to plot removing the first female leader of the Liberal Party—and then they wondered why they had a problem with women

Of course, what we know is that the member for Hume has said himself that the best indicator of future performance is past performance. Well, this is one of the architects, along with the deputy leader—

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