Tim Watts (Gellibrand, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

It's another Thursday afternoon. It's another MPI. It's deja vu all over again, another resounding Shakespearean soliloquy from the shadow minister, but yet again it's all just sound and fury signifying nothing. As I listen to the opposition in question time and listen to the opposition in these forums, it's clear that the stories of families and businesses in Australia—the middle Australians the shadow minister was talking about before—in their world view are nothing but political props. They are props in the political theatre of this building.

We know this because if they actually cared about middle Australians, about Australian families, about Australian businesses, we wouldn't just be hearing rhetoric in here. We wouldn't just be hearing the political games and theatre. We'd be seeing action to match those words.

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