Luke Howarth (Petrie, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

We heard from the member for Batman. He got up on this MPI and said the reason the Defence minister needs to go is that he has not made enough speeches. Member for Batman: it is not about speeches, mate, it is about performance. That is what counts here.

The member for Port Adelaide got up and said, 'This minister's got slip-ups in incompetence.' Then he went on a rant that was totally unfounded. The member for Canberra—who has decided to leave and not even stick around for the rest of the debate—gets up and wants to go on about ADF pay and conditions, yet she was a member of the previous government that saw the biggest fiscal turnaround in this country since federation in 1901.

We left them with billions in the bank. They racked up billions in debt. We have $1 billion a month that we are repaying in debt. And she wants to go on about ADF pay and conditions. Well, she should have thought of that before she spent a truck load of money and left all these people up here in the gallery, and every other Australian, with a heap of debt.

See this speech in context