Senate debates

Thursday, 1 August 2019

Governor-General's Speech

Address-in-Reply

1:10 pm

Photo of James McGrathJames McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's going to be 16 minutes and 49 seconds of pure excitement for those who will be listening to this debate.

In terms of the address-in-reply, in terms of what was outlined in the Governor-General's speech and in terms of the broad, massive program that this government has for the betterment of Australia where it came from was from those quiet Australians who live in the suburbs—

Opposition senators interjecting—

I'll ignore the interjections from the Greens. I think it's sensible life advice for most people to ignore the Greens. Those quiet Australians who live in the suburbs and live in those small country towns, like my parents—my parents who live in a little place called Toogoolawah—

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