Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Regional Services, Territories and Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

() (): After four weeks of crisscrossing the country trying to convince Australians that this guy is authentic—after 20 years in public life, if you've got to convince Australians that you really are the real thing, you've got a much deeper question to ask yourself—we learned this morning that they had a two-hour crisis meeting where the Prime Minister was told that the Liberal Party are homophobic, anti-women and climate change deniers. And those are only the nice things that they had to say about each other! You would have thought that any Prime Minister with his ear to the ground would have left that meeting and thought, 'There are some things I've got to change about myself.' But, no, he did not. Fresh from a meeting of very, very frank self-analysis, the Prime Minister had the audacity to walk out and turn his back on the new member for Wentworth as she delivered her first speech. Then, in question time yesterday, we saw the Prime Minister describe the call for an integrity commission as a fringe issue. There were 4,700 complaints from the Public Service Commissioner. More than one finding of corruption a week, and you think it's a fringe issue? The Prime Minister— (Time expired)

See this speech in context