George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed, like Senator McLucas over there and Senator Farrell. How could we overlook Senator Farrell? But, Senator Cormann, you distract me from my theme. When Ms Gillard took over, the Australian public were for a few short weeks rather entranced by the idea of a first female Prime Minister and, more importantly, they thought there would be change. They thought that maybe under new management the government might at last get their act together. They grafted a very, very narrow victory on the two-party preferred vote in the election. They persuaded Independents to reinstall them in power. But the Australian people in the last four to six weeks have realised that nothing has changed. The Rudd government is continued in the Gillard government.