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

I could at least understand a partisan position that offered some hope of partisan advantage, but what these characters are doing every day of the week is not in the interests of Australians. It should be a position in the national interest. It never is. And every day they advance it. Someone gets smaller, and someone gets bigger. They ought to bring themselves to understand that. But they can't understand it, because their sense of internal grievance, their extremism and their hyperpartisanship don't allow them to see the national interest.

The response of the government will be done in the way it has been done in the Australian interest the Australian way. We will be orderly. We will be effective. We will be systematic. We will continue to advance measures working with industry that mean that we offer real, practical assistance to Australian households, to Australian farmers, to Australian business and to Australian industry because we know what this set of challenges means for our national economic interest and our national industrial interest. What those opposite and One Nation and the Greens have demonstrated over the last 20 minutes is that they don't have a hope of understanding those questions.