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

The idea that someone on $40,000, or $50,000, or $60,000 or $70,000 may aspire to earn more is lost on the privileged elite of the Labor Party opposite.

Opposition members interjecting—

Oh, yes! Those seats used to be filled by men and women who had worked with their hands, who had done those low-income jobs, and now we get one university-educated apparatchik after another, who has got in there and is failing the very workers their forebears used to represent. No wonder Paul Keating is disgusted by the failure of the modern Labor Party to connect to Australians' aspirations!

We know Australians want to get ahead. We know they are encouraged by the stronger economy to get ahead, and we will constantly remind them that the greatest threat to that stronger economy is the modern Labor Party, with its denial of aspiration—the denials of self-advancement that workers for generations used to deliver through the efforts of Labor representatives. This Labor Party is a disgrace to all the Labor history and Labor leaders of the past.

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