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

The fact is that what Australians are concerned about at the moment is education, health, cost of living—all of those things that those opposite have refused to raise this week. What they also don't want to see, as Director-General Burgess has warned, is the social division that we have been warned about. They want to see the temperature taken down in this debate—the temperature right across the board.

Australia is not a direct participant in this conflict, no matter how much some people in political life try to put us at the centre of it. That is something that those opposite have, from time to time, said they agree with when they're critical of minor parties. The reason why I have been critical of those minor parties is that some of that conduct has been divisive, but so too is the sort of division and the attempts that we've seen since the Olympic welcome home ceremony by those opposite. (Time expired)

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