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

and indeed there is. That is consistent with what the member for Herbert said: 'I'll give Labor a pat on the back and say they've spent more in their four or five years on the Bruce Highway than we did before.' It is no wonder I can't get a question on infrastructure and transport: because those opposite are endorsing us. On the issues of substance, on the real policy debates that we should be dealing with in question time, we are quite happy to get questions. But what we do not get are questions of substance on policy from those opposite. What we get are personal attacks. What we get is relentless negativity. It is no wonder, increasingly, as you go round the country, as people take a closer look at the Leader of the Opposition, they say to themselves—

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