Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister made it no secret that he supported the re-endorsement of four incumbent Liberal members of the House of Representatives in the great state of New South Wales. That is not something that is unprecedented in parties on either side of politics. I'm intrigued that the Labor Party has nothing better to ask about. Why don't you ask questions about the economy? Why don't you ask questions about jobs? Why don't you ask questions about our national security? Why don't you ask questions about health, education, immigration or the National Disability Insurance Scheme? Why are you so obsessed with our navel? Why are you so obsessed with navel gazing and our navel?

I mean, honestly! Ask questions about policy rather than questions about the internal Canberra bubble. Quite frankly, Mr Shorten has a track record of intervening in preselections all around the place. I wonder why he didn't intervene in the preselection of Emma Husar? What happened to Emma Husar? We know that Emma Husar turned on him quite spectacularly yesterday—