Wyatt Roy (Longman, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Today I feel like we are entering a new era of very low-grade politics. The Labor Party came into this place today and tried to distract as much as they could from the budget and used something that is a very important political issue as a political football. As part of this pretty shameless act they said, 'Isn't it terrible that half the House was empty when we just had a routine tabling of a private member's bill?' It is pretty interesting that we are here in the chamber tonight debating a very serious bill and I see one Labor member here—one Labor member on a bill that really will define what the modern Labor Party stands for.

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