Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

The next one in was the member for Grayndler, Mr Anthony Albanese. Mr Albanese said that he was ignorant of what had happened in South Australia on the weekend. I then went looking for the person who does a doorstop every single morning—old Gilligan over there. I went looking for others who do doorstops every single day, and I could not find them. I went through the transcript, I looked for their views, and then I went back to the AAP report, which said this: ‘A number of Labor frontbenchers who usually appear at the morning doorstop were nowhere to be seen today.’ So we had four out of four who did not know anything about it, the others were nowhere to be seen, and the Leader of the Opposition was doing his doorstop out in the park—just in case somebody on the doors this morning did not have a ticket.

If you were in any doubt as to what the Labor Party’s policy is, you saw it in South Australia. It is ‘no ticket, no start’, and because the Leader of the Opposition will not stand up to it, for him it is ‘no ticker, no start’ in relation to these matters.

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