Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I want to congratulate my state colleagues in South Australia for a fantastic victory on Saturday night. They have actually turned the state to red. If Senator Farrell were here, he'd say they produce the best red wine, but I think this election just re-established the fact that only Labor listen to their community. They listen and they act. It was an outstanding result, the biggest vote that South Australian Labor has ever had. Put that in contrast to the dismal result by the Liberals, who we know didn't learn anything from the last federal election. Quite clearly, they haven't learnt anything in South Australia.

What is more telling is that they've been beaten by their chamber buddies, Pauline Hanson and the One Nation people. They went to an election with not one policy, but they have got more votes than the Liberals did. I would be ashamed to acknowledge you. What the South Australian people know, as people do Australia wide, is that, if you want action and a government who's going to deliver for you, you need to always vote Labor, unlike those who chose to have a protest vote in South Australia on Saturday.