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

I hate to contradict any of my colleagues on the front bench, but some of them have been saying in question time today that not one member of the Labor Party knows anything about the aspirations of Australians. Well, there is one actually—with quite a lot of aspiration. The member for Grayndler knows all about aspiration. I don't like to contradict the minister for revenue, who said not one member of the Labor Party knows anything about aspiration, but our friend over here, 'old china', has quite a lot of aspiration. A few people have been saying that the member for Sydney might pip him at the post. Well, after this morning, I reckon he has already got her under the chariot wheels. He has only got one more to go—our friend over here, the Leader of the Opposition. If I were you, Anthony, I would be getting my suit dry-cleaned, because you might get there faster than you think. You are sitting there looking like a sphinx, but your aspiration is well known to us all. Mr Speaker, that's the introduction to my answer! My answer—

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