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

Mr Speaker, that was his angry face! We have now seen his angry face. Of course, what really happened after he got carried away at the clambake in Honolulu is he gets back to Australia and discovers he has created a massive storm about Labor Party foreign policy. But, because the Leader of the Opposition is his best friend, he cannot repudiate him. But Penny Wong did not feel that way. Penny Wong did not feel that way at all. Being from the left, being in the centre, she was more than happy to utterly humiliate and repudiate the member for Corio by saying that, actually, the Labor Party's policy was the same as the government's policy—the same as the government's policy.

The poor old Leader of the Opposition, the hapless Leader of the Opposition, does not even know what 'representative democracy' is, because he thought the Navy decided whether they would sail their ships within 12 nautical miles of disputed territory, when obviously it is a civilian decision made by a democratically elected government as to whether—

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