Michael McCormack (Riverina, National Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Chifley should have more respect for the National Party. But let us start with the federal member for McMahon, whose matter of public importance this is today. The member for McMahon, who is also the shadow Treasurer—on his letterhead, he uses the word 'leadership'—just told me that he actually never had the GrainCorp issue across his desk. But I put it to him that he did. I put it to him that he was too cowardly to actually answer it; and, if that is wrong, he will get up and make a personal explanation when I finish. But I doubt it. But he is an absolute amateur when it comes to the lily-livered member for Lilley, who, in his 2012-13 budget speech—

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