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

They find themselves irrelevant to the debate. They have played the Greens, the Palmer United Party and the crossbenchers into the debate in the Senate. We are happy to work with anyone to bring about reform that will improve Australia. It is just sad that the Labor Party is not the once great Labor Party of the Hawke-Keating era or the Curtin-Chifley era. It is now led by the Lilliputians like the current Leader of the Opposition who just do not understand that sometimes you have to get into the conservation to be a part of a great reform.

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