Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

It's a very good time, this Monday morning, to have a Western Australian in the chair, Madam Deputy President, although momentarily—a proud Labor Western Australian. There is a concentration of Western Australians, I notice, in the chamber today. In fact, there are two more Liberal senators from Western Australia here than there will be Liberal members of the Western Australian Legislative Assembly over the course of the next three or four years. I don't say that with any hubris, glee or any of those things—no smugness from me about this issue, none at all! But they could conduct future caucus meetings over there in a Goggomobil, I'm told. I look forward to seeing that, and I look forward to Premier Mark McGowan continuing to represent the interests of Western Australians strongly, as he did last year when the Prime Minister, Mr Morrison, and Clive Palmer teamed up to try and stop—