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

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Given the faceless men humiliated the Prime Minister yesterday after they vetoed her planned appointment of Mr Carr, doesn't this confirm what we already know, that the Prime Minister still cannot control her government; she still cannot control her ministry? And notwithstanding the minister's gesture of healing, even his departure will mean that faceless men like him will still be in control?