Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In the Americas it's Thanksgiving today and, as you'd know, it's practice over there to pardon a turkey. That's good for the turkeys because nobody is going to pardon any of this mob over here who just voted not once but twice to block a federal anticorruption commission. We're about to hear lots of mendacious gobbling from the Prime Minister about how hard he's been working on this. Frankly, after 1,077 days, it's time to just pee or get off the pot.

The Prime Minister is always confident about telling Australians about the things that they know. Well, we've got a message for the Prime Minister. Australians know about sports rorts, they know about car park rorts, they know about Helloworld Travel rorts, they know about the Leppington Triangle rort, and they know about the granddaddy rort of them all: $20 billion of taxpayers' money paid out to companies to pay executive bonuses and to plump up the profits that they didn't need. Of course, Australians really know the big reason why this Prime Minister doesn't want a federal anticorruption commission. The reason this guy doesn't want a federal anticorruption commission is that when you're in the witness box you've got to tell the truth, and that's something that this Prime Minister just can't do. (Time expired.)