Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We've heard an awful lot this week from the Leader of the Opposition about his so-called concerns about crime. But, when it came time for the tough cop on the beat to do something to fight wrongdoing, did he do anything about it? Absolutely not. He looked the other way. That's how you end up with a situation where the Australian government collected taxpayers' money from everyone who is up in the public gallery and sent it in the direction of companies that were undertaking criminal activities. What I would say to the parliament is that the Richardson review shows that, if the Leader of the Opposition were half as tough on crime as he pretends to be, we wouldn't have needed a Richardson review, because he would have commissioned it years ago.

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