Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Twenty years into their five-year redevelopment plan—sounds like the NBN! Maybe the Carlton Football Club and the NBN new management should get together and talk about progress! But we know he is playing a sort of fantasy front bench. You can imagine the colt from Kooyong up there late at night, scribbling down who he thinks and maybe even imagining himself in a war cabinet: 'I hope I get a guernsey.' This great man, the colt from Kooyong: perhaps his government—and this is just a suggestion—should spend less time focused on themselves and their own divisions, with two prime ministers, 14 ministers, three defence ministers, how many communication ministers, this revolving door that is all around division. Beneath it all is just ambition—not ambition for the country, for policy or for progress but just ambition for themselves and for the offices they hold. What a distressing thing for the Australian public when they were promised adult government.

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