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

Indeed there are risks to a more prosperous and secure Australia, Senator Paterson, and you can see them before you on the frontbench of the opposition. It is those who are braying and caterwauling because they cannot face the fact that in six years they did nothing yet in the last six weeks the Turnbull government—on four different fronts that I mentioned in answer to your earlier question—has made landmark, once-in-a-generation reforms.

We do know what the Australian Labor Party stands for, because Mr Shorten announced at the beginning of last year that 2015 would be the year of ideas. And some of us—including me, I must confess—were cynical enough to say, 'There will be no ideas!' But we were wrong. There were ideas; in fact, there were five ideas—five ideas announced last year in the Labor Party's year of ideas—and every one of them was an idea for a new tax. So if you seek to know the risks, look before you. (Time expired)