Gary Humphries (ACT, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Defence Materiel) Share this | Hansard source

Haven't we got a revealing interjection there—'Sort out your internal position.' It begs the question: why is the government putting forward to the Australian people a referendum question which it knows in its heart of hearts is almost certain to fail. Why? Because it has other reasons for putting this forward. The reasons are to do with creating distractions and engineering wedges. That is what this is all about. That interjection from the minister was very telling in that respect.