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

Good government requires focus on the things that matter to Australians, the things Australians care about. It requires a focus on that, not on ourselves. That is what we are doing. That is what Albanese Labor are doing.

What, of course, stands in the way is division, and nowhere is that clearer than in the Liberal and National parties, because the coalition, as Senator Cash poignantly reminded me today, is no more. They've split again—and yet the infighting rages on. We see the blokes lining up to replace Ms Ley. We see the far right and the even-further right battling for control. On issue after issue, they drift further to the extremes. This is the politics of grievance in a party of government, chasing One Nation. You can't be more One Nation than One Nation. In contrast, we are delivering for Australians on the things they care about.