Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

We on this side of the House do not agree with the motion, and the opposition's attempt to suspend standing orders should not be carried. I will say why in the next 10 minutes. We will not be judged by the party of Craig Thomson, and the party of Michael Williamson, and the party of the AWU slush fund, and the party of Eddie Obeid and Ian Macdonald. We will not be judged by the Labor Party on the issue of standards in government. I have waited all week for the opportunity that I hoped the opposition would give me, to outline why we will never be lectured by the Labor Party about ministerial standards.

I say to the House, how dare the Labor Party come into this chamber and try and wear the clothes of ministerial accountability and standards, after the sewer they presided over for three years in the 43rd Parliament, putting aside the 42nd Parliament. But in the 43rd Parliament—

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