Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Exactly. ‘Don’t wimp it, whacker!’ is the call. So let us be clear about this. You have an opportunity today to stand up and be counted, and to say, ‘I’m not going to be led to my ultimate political destruction by those whom I sit next to’—because that is their objective, and in your heart you know it. You actually understand they want every one of your seats. You guys need to have an age rule which will ensure that your sitting members can go till they are 120, because if you do not they will come and try to take your seats. You should actually double the age rule, not reduce the age rule.