Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

It's always good to get a question from the Chatswood-Willoughby industrial complex over there! I don't agree with Mr Matos's assertion, nor do I agree with the proposition that has been advanced in such a disorderly way towards what would happen if those opposite ever got onto the Treasury benches again—a disorderly transition. The truth is that the set of imported ideological obsessions that have driven the madness of the internal approach of those opposite is driven by an impulse for drama and social media attention and not an impulse to act in the best interests of Australians.

The problem with that wrecking impulse that is so fundamental to the identity of the Liberal and National parties today is that adopting that approach hurts ordinary Australians. It hurts ordinary Australians. It damages blue-collar jobs. It damages industry—