Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

It then goes on to list Ian Macfarlane, Alby Schultz and the number of divisions that they have missed, then John Forrest—even Luke Hartsuyker, the Deputy Manager of Opposition Business. And it goes on to say this:

This behaviour is totally unacceptable and shows great disrespect to their colleagues and the Coalition as a whole.

As a result of the absence of these Members, the following Members missed an opportunity to raise issues important to their electorates …

And it goes through the members Tudge, Kelly, Simpkins, Southcott and Frydenberg and their respective margins. It then goes on—and it gets better. It says:

It is an interesting point to note that all the Members who missed the division occupy safe seats, while, of the Members prevented from speaking in the adjournment debate three are first term Members and all occupy marginal or key seats.

It then goes on to say:

Members are elected to Parliament to represent their constituents. That includes being present when the Parliament divides on a question.

As we know, they are so divided opposite they cannot even make it to divisions.

For the benefit of honourable members, I table the signed letter from Hon. Warren Entsch, Chief Opposition Whip, Patrick Secker, Nola Marino, Mark Coulton and Paul Neville. They are all having a go there, and I know that this was of great interest particularly to the member for Wentworth, who saw it as part of the attack by the Leader of the Opposition. This is a Leader of the Opposition who has done for political discourse what the vuvuzela did for World Cup soccer—lots of noise, interesting at the beginning but annoying when that is the only noise it can make. The only noise it can make is one of opposition.

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