Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

It should come as no surprise that the member for Mackellar has ended with the reference to the dumb stunt that the Leader of the Opposition staged yesterday, referring in the news media to a plebiscite proposal that he was supposedly going to put to the parliament at 10 am yesterday, knowing that the parliament was not even sitting at 10 am—indeed, knowing what a piece of wrecking it was likely to be, but presumably guessing that it might just attract some news coverage. But it did not, of course, contribute in the slightest way to the government of this country. It did not contribute in the slightest way to the development of the carbon price that we need and that this government is working on.

To go back to the questions about Dr Henry—and I am glad the member for Mackellar is not actually leaving; it looked like she was for a moment there—

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