Jenny Macklin (Jagajaga, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Families, Housing, Community Services and Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

He is too bored to come and do his job in the parliament, too bored to defend pensioners. He does not want the job anymore. Why is it that we are having this debate in the parliament right now? Why is it that we are having this debate? Because the great lawyer over there has finally realised that what the opposition have proposed is unconstitutional.

I see the member for Mackellar over there is giving it a very big nod. The member for Mackellar knows that I am exactly right—that the previous Leader of the Opposition, when he dreamt up this idea to try and save his leadership a week or so ago, actually said, when he made this announcement, ‘I will be introducing this bill into the House of Representatives. I will introduce this bill.’ Then we saw the member for North Sydney get completely eaten up by Laurie Oakes—

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