Michael Sukkar (Deakin, Liberal Party, Assistant Minister to the Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

You know things are getting a little bit fractious in the Labor Party when the member for Bass is asked to leave and then we have spurious points of order from those opposite. The Leader of the Opposition in raising this MPI clearly wasn't speaking to the Australian people or the government; he was speaking to his backbench. I say to the Labor backbench that this Leader of the Opposition is unfit to lead your party, because he believes small Australian businesses, people who put their hard-earned on the line and treat their employees more like family, are somehow the top end of town—big, nasty millionaires and billionaires who need to pay more tax to fund his unsustainable spending. All of this is on top of every other group he wants to attack, including Australian low-income retirees living on $25,000 or $30,000 a year, who might have up to a quarter of their income ripped away by this Leader of the Opposition. It's clear: his leadership has failed. The member for Bass was right, his instincts were right and we'd love to see him back in the chamber. Bring back the member for Bass.

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