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

Senator Conroy, keep yelling out 'No!' because we will say no every time you betray the Australian people. We will say, 'No way will you get away with it,' every time you lie to the Australian people. We will say, 'No, we're going to stop you,' every time you waste another $10 billion here and another $10 billion there. We will say no every time you try to put more burdens of public debt on the shoulders of our children and our grandchildren.

It is not our fault, Senator Conroy, that you are hopeless; it is your fault. It is not our fault that you give us so little to pat you on the back about. It is not our fault that you give us so little to agree with. If you are a hopeless government with bad policies and an addiction to taxation and waste, we will continue saying no, because we will continue defending the Australian people and their interests.