Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate take note of answers to questions asked by Senators Watt and Chisholm in question time today.

Colleagues, today we had a government that excelled to new heights in the parody that they have become. They are a government that are simply losing it. There is no other description for it. If you look at the performance of Mr Turnbull, Mr Pyne, Senator Brandis and, regrettably, Ms Bishop, you would say to yourself that the government have lost the plot. They have turned themselves into a parody.

Really, the central political strategy of this government at the moment is the 'Kiwis under the bed' scare campaign—hyperventilating and yelling about those dangerous Kiwis under our beds, that dangerous foreign interference. I hate to break it to them, but, you know, this is the New Zealand that is the 'NZ' in Anzac. I know we're very grumpy about the fact the we haven't won the Bledisloe Cup since 2002—