Bill Shorten (Maribyrnong, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the National Disability Insurance Scheme) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw the word. I apologise. I'm sorry I hurt their feelings, absolutely—terrible.

An opposition member interjecting—

No, mate. It's written from your speechwriter: 'I resign.'

On the payment system—this is important, because, if you ever get to be in government again, it's important you learn from your mistakes—we have discovered that between 5 pm and 6.30 pm on any day, under the coalition, the crooks could put in an invoice, and there was zero chance, zero-out-of-a-hundred chance, that you would have your invoice checked. Isn't that a dumb way to run a system? Isn't that a shocking way to run a system? You call yourself the economic supermen. I get the gender point but not the 'super' bit. And what you were doing was running a payment system—

Rick, listen and learn.

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