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

The first point I would make is that we have every confidence in the integrity of Joe Hockey, our ambassador in Washington. The second point I would make is that we have had absolutely no confidence in the integrity of many members of the Labor Party over the many years that I've been in this place. We are being lectured about fiscal rectitude by the Labor Party—the party of Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi; the party of Rex Jackson, if you want to go back a few decades; the party of Craig Thomson; the party that required a royal commission—

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