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

My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Evans. Is the minister familiar with the fundamental constitutional principle that the legitimacy of a Prime Minister depends upon having the support of a majority of the House of Representatives? Given that the Prime Minister does not have the support of 31 of the government's own members, including that of at least a quarter of her cabinet, and only has the support of, at best, a third of the members of the House of Representatives, when will she do the right thing, call upon the Governor-General, request a dissolution and allow the people to sort out the political debacle which the Australian Labor Party has created?