Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

When we get these broad political questions it is very important to deal with political issues and issues of political culture, because Senator Dastyari, of course, said not so long ago:

You will not find somebody who came more from the ALP machine than me. I'm a product of the machine like you would not believe. I joined the Labor Party when I was 16. I took over my first branches by the time I was 17 ... none of that braced me for an understanding of just how concentrated, brutal and aggressive a handful of businesses operate [in Australia], and the real corporate power where it actually rests in this country.

He then claimed that there are 10 companies that wield the most incredible amount of power. One of those was not his benefactor—his benefactor that succeeded in getting him to abandon the Labor Party's policy on the South China Sea and sign up to the Chinese government's talking points! It is a most extraordinary thing. Joe Hockey said that the age of entitlement is over, but I will tell you what: it is only getting started on the Labor side. What an extraordinary sense of entitlement.

Honourable members interjecting—

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