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

Honestly and truly, Senator Singh! Here we are: the House of Representatives isn't sitting this week, so the only parliamentary chamber, the only question time for the Australian Labor Party to prosecute its policies—to ask penetrating questions of the government about policies—is here in the Senate. We're only 15 minutes from the end of question time and you have run out of serious things to say. You haven't asked a question about the economy. You haven't asked a question about national security. You haven't asked a question about jobs. You haven't asked a question about energy or economic security. You haven't asked a question about international relations. You haven't asked a question about defence. You haven't asked a question about the cost of living. You haven't asked a single question on any serious policy issue for the whole of this question time. You are a joke!