Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The member will be pleased to know that I am concluding. He will not have to endure the political truths for too much longer. Since December last year, the Leader of the Opposition has won the trust and admiration of the electorate—and no rabbit in the hat, no throwaway budget, no tax bribes and no interest rate scares can change that. Luck can get you only so far in politics. The government’s luck has now run out, and it has nothing else to offer. As I said, the act of governing Australia is not about endlessly providing this government with the sinecures of office and the PM with a Sydney waterfront mansion. He does not believe in the issues that I have outlined concerning Australia’s future, but surely there are some members of this collapsing government who can see the problems and who are finally willing to put Australia’s future first. They had better act quickly.

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