Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

He's very angry—the Leader of the Opposition. Perhaps he's angry because, one by one, there are people who were sitting there who go and are sitting up the back there. One by one, he loses people. He lost the member for Calare. He lost the member for Monash up there. He lost Senator Hughes last week. The one thing that people facing preselection in the Liberal Party hope for is that they don't get endorsed by this bloke. In the previous Senate preselection, there were three candidates and he endorsed two of them. The only one who got up was the one he didn't endorse, and now he sits in the Senate.

As the Australian Labor Party, we to govern by ourselves. We aren't part of a coalition. You are. The only coalition party here is the Liberal Party with the National Party, who, when they were last in government, refused to publish the deal between the Liberal Party and the National Party—having that tail wagging the Liberal Party dog. The Australian Labor Party proudly does not govern in coalition with any political party, nor will we in the future. Today, I was launching or asking our candidate in Sturt. I was there this morning in St Peter's, and over coming weeks, we'll be rolling out candidates who will take their place on the government benches—

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