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

And, of course, Birmo most recently, on the other side! But I will say, as Leader of the Opposition, what we all understood in our roles was what we wanted to have as something that parties of government resolve and when we would play the crossbench in. And of course, at time, people do play the crossbench in, but it wasn't really until last week that I've ever observed a party of government essentially inviting a member of the crossbench to become the Leader of the Opposition! And I thought, really, Senator Pocock should just be invited to the Liberal party room and be elected to your job, because he is doing your job. That is what you're doing. That's the first point I'd say. I've never seen that in over 20 years.

The second point I would make is this: this is not urgent. This is a stunt.

No. Excuse me. I actually listened to you.