George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

As Senator Cormann says, in fact, if anything, it has got worse. As the Prime Minister has elevated the level of rhetoric, the government has fallen down the scale on the level of achievement. It is almost like a virtual government: it exists in rhetoric alone. What achievement can this government point to? Not the NBN—the colossal white elephant being presided over by Australian politics’ leading public policy lightweight, Senator Conroy. Not the dispossession of people in the Murray-Darling Basin. Not the continuation of the fiasco of Building the Education Revolution. Not the tidying up of the fiasco of the Home Insulation Scheme. Not, as Senator Scullion elicited from Minister Arbib, the fiasco of the failure to provide the Indigenous housing in the Northern Territory of which this government was so proud—