David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

The mess bequeathed to me obviously has its foundation in the sort of attitude that Senator Conroy brings into this chamber. Here we have Australians on the battlefield in Iraq and Afghanistan, we have huge defence capability acquisition programs and all he can do is seek to ask a question from a couple of lines in a newspapers. I have to tell you that what they bequeathed to us is clearly understandable given the intellectual rigor brought to this question time by the senator.