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

The Leader of the Opposition may want to come into this place and throw a tantrum at question time over whether or not someone's going to agree to what he wants to do. He's entitled to do that, but the tantrums of the Leader of the Opposition in this place only reinforce the Labor Party's addiction to panic and crisis. They love panic. They love crisis. Even when circumstances don't bear out their argument, they seek to create them, because they will look for any excuse to put their hands in the pockets of the Australian people and to rapidly increase spending to a reckless level.

I referred earlier to the catalogue of Labor Party failures in government when it came to policy. The reason they engaged in those failures is that they could never break their cycle of panic and crisis. They put in ill-considered measures. They didn't think them through. They just smashed them through and into the Australian community, and Australians have been paying for them ever since.

At the last election, I said: if you vote Labor once, you pay for it for the next decade. It seems exactly the same thing is true under this Leader of the Opposition. He can throw as many tantrums as he likes. We'll just get on with the job of good government.

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