Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would have thought on this issue they might have backed you. They might have thought to back you. They may have had a case to mount. You seem to want to mount your case through interjection. That is how you mount your case. What an embarrassment! The Prime Minister has stripped you of all your authority and of your voice in public. You wander around, if not waddle around, Christmas Island saying, ‘We’ll fix this,’ as it bursts at the seams, and that is all you have done. In 2008 your own department warned you about all of this.