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

What we saw there was the biggest glass jaw in Australian politics. We had his snivelling personal explanation, earlier in the week—almost bursting into tears—that the mean people on the government side had said nasty things about him. He cannot take it. And he cannot take the truth about his own hypocrisy. And there he is, standing up here, abusing the standing orders, defying the Speaker, to give his torrent of abuse.

Well, I will say this: if the honourable member for Watson wants to know what my views are or my party's views are on those issues, then you look to us. And we stand for a non-discriminatory immigration program. We stand behind Australia, the most successful multicultural society in the world. We support the United States alliance, the bedrock of our security—which is not what the Greens party supports. And we do not believe that heroin should be free, either. And I do not think the Labor Party does either—but they preference the Greens again and again and again. The hypocrisy from the Labor Party is insupportable—the duplicity, the inconsistency, from the Leader of the Opposition; his snivelling pleas for mercy. This glass jaw has to be revealed for what it is. He can't take it. He can't deliver. He can't govern.

Mr Speaker, I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.

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