Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

We have many days where we see the parliament at its worst or at its best. I think one of the extraordinary things is that today we finally have a parliament where anyone in Australia, no matter what they're going through or what their background is, who looks at it can see someone in this House of whom they can say, 'That person would understand what I'm going through.' In all my terms, I'm not sure that we've had that before. The 48th Parliament is one day down, but I think we're off to a start.

House adjourned at 19:44