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

The fact is that we were re-elected on a set of policies by the Australian people. We were re-elected on those policies, and we will put those policies to this chamber, and we will be looking to you. But if the Australian Labor party will not cooperate, will not respect the will of the Australian people, then we will look to the crossbench. We come into this chamber with an ambition to do what is best for the Australian people on all the tasks but most particularly the task of budget repair because this is a new parliament. This is a new parliament with a government returned with a mandate to give effect to the commitments it made during the election.