Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

We have not taken points of order on yours. Just sit down. There is a protocol during MPIs.

We have heard before about governments that are driven by opinion polls. Never before have we had a government that could not run an opinion poll, and he is the one who was put in charge of it.

But it is not fair, I guess, for me to say that they do not get to do anything they believe in at all, because the Prime Minister has not been rolled on every issue. There is one issue where he has managed to prevail: the banks. The one issue where the Prime Minister has been able to make sure that the detractors within his own party do not win is when it comes to defending the banks. I love that the committee that is going to be tough and teach the banks a lesson is chaired by the member for Banks! It is meant to be an area, not a constituency that you are actually backing! It is Joseph Banks!

What could have been more demeaning than to listen to the member for Dawson—the person who had made statements quite specifically saying he would be strident in the new parliament in standing up—

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