Ed Husic (Chifley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It's the last day of parliament for a last-gasp government, a tired government, a lazy government, a deceitful government. We have never seen a bunch of people work so hard to get power and then do nothing with it. It is 'government by Roomba': it operates automatically. Stuff happens without them having to lift a finger or do a single thing. But people deserve better. They deserve better than a government that only ever acts in its own interest at the last minute. There's been no action on tackling corruption, but they will rush in laws to save themselves. They sent the ADF into our communities but refused to send in vaccines. They refused to use the ADF to set up and run vaccine hubs in our areas. They're lazy, lifeless and clueless. Look at how many days parliament is sitting. This is more of a slouch than a sitting pattern. They have no ability, no idea, no laws, no sense of what they can do for the country.

We deserve a government that fights for the health of the nation, fights for a healthy economy, fights for healthy people and fights for a healthy government that acts with integrity and the interest of the nation. We deserve better than this.