Michael Danby (Melbourne Ports, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

As the smoke clears, the dust settles and the bodies of the fallen are stretchered to the government backbench or sent to the embassy in Washington DC, it becomes increasingly clear that our new unelected Prime Minister, the 'Waffler from Wentworth', is all talk and no action. He is running the government the way a matron from Double Bay might run a dinner party. All luxurious options are on the table to be served by the butler to invited guests, including Senator Sinodinos, who is still under investigation by ICAC, and the lamentable member of the Fisher, who arranged for the former Speaker's diary to be stolen and who is currently under investigation by the AFP.

We have gone from the pompous, clueless moralisers of the Abbott era running the show to the slick 'Age of Turnbull'—

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