Alex Gallacher (SA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

You did not get up and articulate for it. You paint this picture of a great big new world, but you will not tell a worker where he has an opportunity. You will not point to manufacturing and say, 'We have a plan,' because you have your Commission of Audit. Also, you had an inconvenience or two. There was a state election. Oh, my goodness, there is another inconvenience on 5 April—a Senate election. So you are saying: 'Let's not tell anybody in the economy what the plan is seven months after we were elected. Let's just keep blaming the carbon tax and the minerals resource rent tax.' You are blaming everybody but yourselves.

Your message to the South Australian electorate fell on deaf ears. If you cannot win the seats in a parliamentary democracy, you cannot form government.