Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I did not realise when I came to the parliament today that the opposition had been replaced by a history club. Some of us are interested in the nation’s future and we will get on with debating that future and designing that future and delivering a vision for Australia whilst the opposition takes itself back in time—back in time to the days of former glory, back in time to the days of Work Choices when they could click their champagne glasses as another worker lost their penalty rates. This is the kind of nostalgia we are seeing from the opposition.

In its current mode of wreck, destroy, worry about the past, pay no regard to the nation’s future, what I can say to the member who asked the question—

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