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

By their own admission, that is the closest the Australian Labor Party can come to asking a question about a job, for heaven's sake. Senator Farrell, in the good old days you used to represent working people. You couldn't care less. Senator Farrell, the fact is that every minister in this government is strictly observant of the ministerial standards, which are enforced rigorously by the Prime Minister. Senator Farrell, if I might offer you some advice: next time we gather here for question time, why don't you use the intervening week to think up some policy questions rather than the tricky questions, political pointscorings, gibes and intrigue that so obsess you? Why don't you, for once, ask some questions about what matters to Australians? I ask that further questions be placed upon the Notice Paper.