Sid Sidebottom (Braddon, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

If you cannot govern yourselves on the other side, you cannot govern the country, and no amount of shouting by the member opposite is going to change it. The opposition leader’s ‘sit on your hands’ approach to leadership and to the economy is just not right for Australia. The Leader of the Opposition has totally lost control of his own party, and he is desperate to blame others for his own leadership problems. He knows that every day he delays the government’s Carbon Pollution Reduction Scheme he is costing taxpayers in the long run. Every day he delays on climate change he is putting at risk billion-dollar industries like agriculture, tourism and public health. The school and community infrastructure projects he and those opposite have opposed are all about jobs, jobs and more jobs. And the member for Riverina, of course, says she is happy—happy to oppose jobs and more jobs—

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