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

Indeed! Thank you for your protection, Deputy Speaker Coulton, I do appreciate it. I was talking about the basking that took place last year. I remember getting up here and saying, 'I don't think this will end that well.' I was making a point about the Westminster tradition, that if you are a minister in a cabinet and you are serving a Prime Minister you owe your first loyalty to him, and that if you engage in plotting out there in Queanbeyan—that is where it was, wasn't it? There are not too many of them left in the House, now. One? Two? There are some who do not own up to being there, and they are still here. You see them mentioned in the paper every now and again.

One year on, it does not look quite as good. Today, in fact, in The Australian, hardly an organ of socialism and progress, we had Phillip Hudson: 'One year on, what is the point of Turnbull as PM?'

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