Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable senator, the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate, for the first question in this place of the 48th Parliament. I'm very pleased to receive it. What I would observe is that it does demonstrate that the coalition haven't listened and haven't learnt—they haven't listened to the message of the Australian people and haven't learnt from the message that was sent to them at the last election that the negativity, scare campaigns and obstruction from those opposite didn't get a great response in the Australian community. I would have hoped—