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

Stephen Conroy resigned and Joe Ludwig resigned. These are the people who come into this place and lecture us about ministerial standards. We all know what is happening here. The idea of being lectured by the Labor Party on standards is like Dean Martin lecturing people on alcohol abuse, and we are not going to take it. We all know what is going on here.

Labor are practising the old politics that they have always managed to get away with. They are quite good at old politics. They are practising old politics and this government is getting on with new politics. The Labor Party need to get back to their electorates and they need to talk to voters because what voters want is governments and opposition being constructive about creating jobs and growth in the economy. That is what they want. They are sick of the six years of Labor Party abuse of government. They are sick of the shouting, particularly the shouting over there, Mr Speaker—

Mr Conroy interjecting—

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