Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

These are cowardly attacks, they are orchestrated and they do continue, and the Leader of the Opposition has turned down the opportunity time and time again to discipline his backbench and to discipline his senior frontbenchers because he is in on it. He is in on the caper. He wants this to happen. He wants the destabilisation of our financial institutions and he wants the destabilisation of the Australian economy; and he wants that destabilisation for one reason and for one reason only—to advance his short-term political interests. That is what he wants to do—to advance his short-term political interests at the expense of the national interest. He is a disgrace. The coalition is a disgrace on this. You should be more responsible. You should take a greater responsibility to the Australian people but you will not, because you see some short-term political gain. You should be ashamed of yourselves.

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