Helen Kroger (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

What we have seen today is a dreadful deterioration and disintegration of what the Senate is all about. Those on the opposite side are playing the man. When they were in government and we were strongly prosecuting the case against the shambolic policies that they were introducing—their policies on the run—we were accused of playing the man or, in the case of former Prime Minister Gillard, playing the woman. And how they cried! They cried foul because they were suggesting that we were playing the woman, when in actual fact we were playing the policy. We were against the policy of the day that they were creating and dreaming up overnight on the run. I have to say what an absolute hypocrite the leader on the other side of this chamber was to come in here today and play the man. I think it is a disgrace and damning of—