Tim Wilson (Goldstein, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'm sorry to burst people's bubble, but I am actually not quite fully awake after that speech. In fact, quite the reverse: the contribution from the member for Whitlam instead became a diatribe of repeated and rehearsed lines that I've no doubt he does in front of the mirror each morning. The other day, in another debate, he referred to the expression in the context of my good self of 'one who drinks their own bathwater'. As anyone would see who's had to go and look up something on Urban Dictionary when they hear that hip new youth speak, as I have from time to time—it's ridiculous to think that might apply to the member for Whitlam, but let's accept it as it is—on face value, the reference means basically that someone believes their own spin. I could use a more crude, unparliamentary term to refer to how the member for Whitlam, I'm sure, intended it—

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