Jenny McAllister (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have to be honest: I find the government's approach to economic policy truly perplexing. We have as our Prime Minister a man who was so interested in and committed to economic reform that he put forward his own taxation policies and paid himself to have them costed during the Howard government. This is a man who toppled former Prime Minister Abbott because he felt that only he could provide the economic leadership that we need. Those were his words. Yet, having fulfilled his ambitions, having achieved the power to actually do things, he instead chooses to do nothing. I think many Australians find this genuinely disappointing. Many Australians are confused about where Q&A Malcolm has disappeared to. I'm not sure myself. It's possible that the Prime Minister is held back by internal division.