Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, I'm just wondering: do you know whether or not the Liberal Party over on this side know that since World War II we now have a lot of Independents—it is the 21st century—and that their numbers are decreasing? I'm just wondering whether that's been brought into play today. The way they're going, their numbers will continue to decrease and you're going to have more crossbenchers up here. Was that ever taken into account? I'm sure it was, because someone seems to be up with what's going on in the 21st century. These ones here are still asleep at the wheel, knowing that very well their power is decreasing every time we go to an election.