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

I am directing my remarks to the sorts of issues that we should be discussing in this parliament rather than moving these daily suspensions of standing orders. Question time is continually interrupted by those opposite to move suspensions of standing orders. We heard a question about the Maldives yesterday from the shadow minister for foreign affairs, who has moved this motion, attempting to make a joke of what is a very serious international issue. This is from the party that a few weeks ago were making jokes about the Costa Concordia disaster—they thought that was an appropriate comment to make on radio in Adelaide. That is the sort of moral standard that we get from those opposite.

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