Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Aged Care) Share this | Hansard source

Do you know what is really interesting? And the Liberal Senate team from Tasmania are very good at it. They pretend that they are lions when they are down in Tasmania and that they are going to stand up for Tasmanians; but when they come in here to this place, they are pussycats. They do it in just the same way that the member for Dawson, George Christensen, espoused in his electorate that he supports penalty rates. Yes, he crossed the floor, but he did that knowing full well that it would not change the outcome of that vote. They are crocodile tears. He is like every other person who sits on that side of the chamber and on that side in the other place who supports these cuts to penalty rates: they are so out of touch and they are so arrogant.

I remember making these same comments in relation to the Howard government—how out of touch and arrogant they were. This government, under Malcolm Turnbull, could not be any further out of touch or more arrogant than they have already demonstrated they are in this place all week, when they would not even condemn Senator Hanson for her outrageous— (Time expired)