Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

but I certainly will not accept any instructions, like the Prime Minister does. I accept the admonishment but will not be accepting instructions. It goes on, 'They are in denial'. And this is the person who put them in that situation. In their mind they think this is the person who is going to let them live. So Mr Christensen is the guy who lets the Prime Minister live.

Senator Joyce, now the Deputy Prime Minister—the Deputy Prime Minister of this country! I never thought I would see the day. But that is how bad things get in politics from time to time. So they go, 'Please, let me live.' Day by day, this husk, this empty vessel of a Prime Minister gets up every day. Then it goes on to say that Kristin Ehnmark, one of the hostages, said:

It's some kind of a context you get into when all your values, the morals you have change in some way.

It is clear that this Prime Minister has got no morals. This Prime Minister has got no values. They are all gone because Stockholm syndrome has got this guy holus bolus. There is nothing left. There is absolutely no way that he can develop any progressive policies. The leather jacket is on the back of the door, never to be seen again. He will never be a Prime Minister of this country with any standing.

We talk about the gains. We talk about 100 values or 100 things that this guy has done. He has done nothing in the first 100 days. He has done absolutely nothing except capitulate to the worst elements in this country. He does not stand up for his values on marriage equality. He does not stand up for his values on climate change. He does not stand up for his values on the republic. He has absolutely capitulated; a weak, jelly-backed, no backbone Prime Minister, absolutely stood-over by the National Party and the right wing. It is a disgrace. (Time expired)