Carol Brown (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Families and Payments) Share this | Hansard source

What we have seen here is a coalition that is now fighting amongst itself. We have a third of the coalition caucus room not supporting the Prime Minister. We have a Prime Minister who has no respect for his back bench. We saw recently in his Press Club speech that he would have no more captain's calls and more consultation—I am not sure what Mr Abbott thinks 'more consultation' means—yet he changed the meeting time for this spill motion with very little consultation.