Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Australian tax office. And they were not consulted—what an extraordinary revelation today from the ATO. What an extraordinary revelation: they were not consulted. But does it really surprise you when it comes from a govern­ment who has now got the reputation of being a knee-jerk reaction government who have completely and utterly lost any ability to govern this country?

We had a question which I am quite indignant about today from the senator from the Northern Territory about Indigenous issues, when she should have asked Senator Arbib: 'What are you doing about Indigenous employment as a result of this knee-jerk reaction in the Northern Territory?' That is the question that should have been asked today. How many of those stockmen are going to lose their jobs as a result of your government's knee-jerk reaction? Did you consult with the Indonesian government? No, you most certainly did not.

I will just have a quick look through some of the recent press in the time that is left to me to tell the Australian community again—of course, Senator Pratt will accept everything that I say because she and I agree on a lot of things!—that when we look at the Greens-Labor alliance—