Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

It's a bit rich from a shadow Treasurer who once proclaimed—about the budget surpluses that had been delivered by the previous Labor government, as he went out to his entire electorate—about the great fiscal responsibility of the previous government that left Australia's fiscal situation in a greatly parlous state. We're not going to take lectures from a failed shadow Treasurer. We are not going to take lectures from a failed immigration minister, who allowed 25,000 people to turn up illegally in this country on his watch. The shadow Treasurer was one of the greatest ministerial failures of the previous government. I cannot tell you one member of that frontbench who actually did a good job in the last government, and that's a pretty good reason why they shouldn't be returned to government.

Honourable members interjecting—

Mr Frydenberg interjecting—

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