Andrew Bragg (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Homelessness) Share this | Hansard source

I take the interjection. The government can go away and use its bullyboy union tactics and threaten members of the House with committee positions and their own salaries, but you know what? We are not in the business of standing up or placing vested interests or our own individual interests above that of the communities that we serve. That is not the way we roll here, and the reality is that this government has governed the country for 3½ years to the advantage of vested interests only. That is the problem the Australian people have now. The government isn't interested in fashioning economic policies to solve the economic problems of the day. They are only interested in feathering the nests of vested interests and the people who run their campaigns and give them donations. That is why I've said for a long time that this is the government for vested interests. It is not the government for Australians.

We look forward, frankly, to the government issuing and executing its threats against members of the coalition who dared to vote with the crossbench to ensure that they were production of documents.