Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

The interjection is coming from the climate change sceptic of climate change sceptics, the king of climate change sceptics, the former minister and now shadow minister, there at the table. But let us get to the final points that were made by the Leader of the National Party. The Leader of the National Party finished off by saying—as though it was a new revelation—that I come from the city. In my answer to the first question that I had in this place I made that clear. I have got to say: it was my first speech in this place where I made it clear. Since I was a kid, and whenever I have read my address and where I live, it has been pretty clear. It is hardly a revelation.

There is an obsession amongst those opposite, and we saw it in the sorts of TV ads that they ran during the campaign. All they want to look at is what job you did before you got into parliament. There is a simple reason why they are obsessed with that: they are so embarrassed about the lack of work they have done since they got here. We heard that earlier from the maker of the ‘I do not make a lot of contributions in this place’ point of order that we had during—

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