Chris Pearce (Aston, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Financial Services, Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

Can I start by saying that I think it is always interesting to hear a new member to this House carrying on about how they perceive the other side of the House. I was just chatting with my honourable colleague at the table, the member for Denison, who has been here three times as long as I have. I recommend to the member for Lindsay that maybe in the forthcoming Christmas-New Year period—I hope that he will have the opportunity to relax with his family—if he has any time, he might care to order just a few videos of his party during 13 years in opposition. He referred to the opposition playing politics and political point-scoring. I would just say to the new member for Lindsay—he has only been here for one year—that I really recommend that he does a bit of research about his own side of politics before he starts firing some pot shots at us. I have been here for 7½ years, and every day for 7½ years I have heard nothing but the Australian Labor Party playing politics with everything possibly known to man. So I think it is interesting to hear new members, in their naivety, try to present themselves in a way that makes them holier than thou.

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