Terri Butler (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Environment and Water) Share this | Hansard source

As you know, Deputy Speaker, I'm talking here about the Prime Minister having the wrong priorities for the people of Australia. This is a Prime Minister who spent time in the Queensland state election campaigning, and you will be shocked to hear about the fact that this LNP leader that I'm talking about, who was, as I said, Campbell Newman's assistant minister when he was the Premier of Queensland, was a direct party to all of those sackings. Tens of thousands of people lost their jobs—my mother included, for that matter—when Mr Newman was Premier of Queensland. It was a very short tenure indeed, but, of course, a lot of damage was wreaked. Remember, he picked fights with the judges, with the teachers, with the doctors—imagine picking fights with the doctors, with the nurses, the education people. This is the sort of mob this Prime Minister is friends with in Queensland. This is not to mention broad-scale land clearing—such massive damage across Queensland.

The fact is it's Queensland Labor that has a plan for the future and it's the LNP that has a plan for cuts. I might also say—

A government member interjecting—

I take the interjection. The Premier clearly won. If you have a look at the stats from the votes, you see your poor old leader did not do very well.

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