I would like to take this opportunity in my first contribution to the 43rd Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia to acknowledge the traditional owners of the land, the Ngunawal people, their elders past and present. I am pleased and honoured to be a member of the 43rd Parliament of the Commonwealth of Australia and a member of the Gillard government. It is good to be back to hear Senator Brandis giving his political analysis in nearly the same poor way and with the same lack of substance as his legal analysis that he gave to his party—