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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I note the minister's failure to affirm to the Senate that the Labor Party any longer believes in telling the truth, if it ever did. With the government increasingly paralysed by disunity over leadership, why should the Australian people have any confidence in Julia Gillard protecting their jobs rather than protecting her own from those who sit behind the minister?