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

I'll ask the Treasurer to add further to this answer. What the government is not going to do is engage in reckless legislation. We will engage in responding to all 76 of the recommendations of the royal commission, and we're going to do it in a measured way, consulting to ensure there are no unintended consequences, because our government doesn't engage in reckless legislation. Our government doesn't do that.

What the Leader of the Labor Party did in this place last week was engage in reckless legislation to undermine Australia's border protection regime, and we're already seeing the unintended consequences. It's the Leader of the Labor Party who knows how to rush to failure when it comes to bringing legislation into this place. He didn't think about it when it was voted on in the Senate; he didn't think about it here. He demonstrated his weakness, and the leader of Labor Party cannot be trusted with Australia's future.

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