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

It just goes to show how desperate and reckless you have become that what you, 10 months ago, condemned as a stunt is now the centrepiece of your policy. What you condemned as a stunt, you have now embraced as the centrepiece of your policy. We are a responsible government. We know that there is no system so good that it cannot be improved. But the way in which to do it, Senator Dastyari, is to take the institutions that we have—institutions which you and your leader and your shadow Treasurer have acknowledged are among the best regulators in the world—and make sure they can be as good as they possibly can be.