Petro Georgiou (Kooyong, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Deputy Speaker Burke, I first of all congratulate you on your election. I am sure you will do a fantastic job. As I was sitting here listening to some really empty rhetoric from the government, I thought to myself: how did a day that started so well, with a fantastic welcome to country ceremony that ignited everyone’s enthusiasm and that the government, I believe, was complimented on, end with such acrimony and empty rhetoric from the government side? The reason is transparent. What the government have done is create a huge mess that they cannot even defend themselves against. What they have done is try to construct a day in parliament without quorums, without divisions—

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