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

Now we hear those opposite desperately calling across the chamber asking for this debate to be brought to an end. At the end of a debate on a censure motion, they are actually calling for the debate to be brought to an end. They are calling and interjecting across the chamber now, saying, ‘It’s all over; let’s just end the debate.’ Those are the catcalls that are coming across the chamber right now. I can now see why the Leader of the Opposition decided to leave. The people here, his alleged frontbench, do not have any interest in the motion that he moved. He decided to leave. They are asking for the debate to be ended. The Deputy Leader of the Opposition decided to tell us what was in her speech and then make sure that she ran out of time before she got to defend any of it.

We have got a system here at the moment where the government are making sure that, where we can help, we do; where we can provide power to consumers, we will. The alternative from the members opposite is an agenda to blow a $22 million hole in the surplus.

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