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

It does get in the way of a good argument. But he, in his speech, singled out the one single achievement of this government, which was to keep Labor out of government.

Mr Husic interjecting—

Of all the conservative causes. Normally they dress it up a bit, but they are really reaching into the bottom tray of achievements: 'We'll just keep the other guys out. Stop the other guys doing stuff—advancing the nation.' And given where we are with the world economy, our own national economy and all these debates, that is not really good enough. Non-thinking conservatism is not really good enough.

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