Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

They are a very frustrated and disappointed lot opposite. They know they are clearly in breach of the practices of this House. They are clearly in defiance of the longstanding custom of this House that information—screeds of information—cannot be given in the guise of a question and, instead of actually having decent tactics and instead of actually going sensibly about their question time planning, they are so utterly consumed with who is going to possibly challenge the Leader of the Opposition next week that they did not do their homework, and that was why their question was so plainly and obviously out of order.

This was going to be the Leader of the Opposition’s week of triumph. This was going to be when all his huffing and puffing about corruption and cover-up would be vindicated—but, instead, the Cole royal commission concluded that there had been no wrongdoing whatsoever by officials and ministers in this government. So what did the Leader of the Opposition do? He went back to his comfort zone of workplace relations—

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