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

So for less than half of the time that they were in government they had exactly the same number of people who held executive office. They were an absolute disgrace. In six years they had two Prime Ministers, three Deputy Prime Ministers, five ministers responsible for regional development, six ministers for small business and nine ministers for education—I was the shadow to seven of them. They made 11 changes to ministerial arrangements, involving 20 parliamentary secretaries and 48 ministers—

Mr Brendan O'Connor interjecting—

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