Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

Although I was about to say it is difficult, I would not attribute all the blame to Senator Minchin, the former finance minister, because he did face a particularly challenging job with the level of disunity in that last year of the Liberal government. That disunity of course has continued. It seems to be that treasurers—in this case Mr Turnbull, the shadow Treasurer—always have their eye on the top job, which makes—