Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

As relevantly as the member for Grayndler, who ranged very widely over my so-called history as the Leader of the House and Manager of Opposition Business and what I apparently said in the past in various speeches. I am now returning to the subject of the member for Grayndler's reminiscing—how the standing orders apparently used to be in his period of greatness.

I have in my hand not a list; I have in my hand the 61 votes that the member for Grayndler lost when he was the Leader of the House in the 43rd Parliament. In fact, he lost a further 13 when they did not reach the required 76 to be passed. In fact, in that period of time he lost 74 votes on the floor of the House, where the government was outvoted by the opposition and the crossbenchers, or just the opposition. Seventy-four votes in the 43rd Parliament were lost by the member for Grayndler as the Leader of the House, so it is rewriting of the history. All the new members of the parliament who are here listening at the feet of the member for Grayndler—

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