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

I'm asked a question about character from those opposite, and I'm happy to answer it by beginning—

He promised to smile more, but there's just more abuse. Let me begin by quoting a character, Robert Menzies. This is what he had to say:

It is a good thing that Australia should have earned a reputation for a sensitive understanding of the problems of people in other lands, that we should not come to be regarded as people who are detached from the miseries of the world. I know that we will not come to be so regarded, for I believe that there are no people anywhere with warmer hearts and more generous impulses.

That was the founder of the Liberal Party. He wouldn't recognise this mob today. He would not recognise them.

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