Phillip Thompson (Herbert, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I don't know how you have been sitting here this afternoon listening to the garbage dribble out from the Labor Party, especially that last speaker. Once again they're offering no solutions, no ideas, just pointing at everyone else and yelling.

We've seen tragic scenes around the world of thousands of people dying every single day in this global pandemic. We've been very lucky and fortunate here in Australia not to have seen the catastrophic deaths that other nations have seen. I want to say to the opposition: to suggest that we on this side of the House have not been focusing on the people of Australia during this tough time is factually incorrect—a lie—and something that shouldn't be happening. In parliaments around the world, in oppositions—

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