Duncan Kerr (Denison, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer and Acting Prime Minister. Pleased no doubt, as we all are, with the Prime Minister’s decision to drop in, when did the Prime Minister advise the Acting Prime Minister that he would be returning to Australia a day early to be here on Thursday for question time and did the Acting Prime Minister try to talk him out of it?

Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will get a very warm reception back here on Thursday. We look forward to seeing him just as much as the member for the Northern Territory does. But every now and then you come across a political party that is demoralised. Here we are in Australia with all sorts of economic issues, where people are interested in petrol prices, interest rates and jobs for their kids, and you have some drop kick asking a question like that. If that is the level of the attack that is coming out of the Labor Party, I have but one piece of advice for you: bring on Bill Shorten.