Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

What a remarkable contribution by Senator Bernardi. Since November last year, all of a sudden all these revelations have come to the now opposition. After 11½ years in government of not seeming to know anything—the world was fine and everything was great: ‘We were doing everything for everybody’—all of a sudden, since November last year, everything is bad. It is a revelation! They have just worked out in the last eight months that pensioners are doing it tough. Eleven and a half years of doing absolutely nothing, and you have just worked it out! The hypocrisy coming from that side of the chamber is absolutely shameful. You should be ashamed of yourselves. Cheap politics—that is all you want to play. This is an opposition—