Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Instead, the Leader of the Opposition is playing politics with marriage equality as a distraction from the budget. He must be surprised that the Greens do not support his push, that the marriage equality lobby has been lukewarm in their support for the Leader of the Opposition's bill and that the government has not rushed to support it, because marriage equality was supposed to distract people from the budget.

The next thing to distract people from the budget was to not keep up with the bipartisan position on national security.

Mr Albanese interjecting—

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