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

What a week it has been! While this place has been focused internally, as it always is, and the National Party has been focused on itself, we've seen a couple of themes emerge from the self-absorbed, self-indulgent, self-interested fracas inside the National Party. The only uniting theme that these characters can design that explains their behaviour is their opposition to the Prime Minister's crab-walking towards the most basic of commitments on climate change, emissions, energy and jobs. The capacity of those opposite to develop a policy framework is so weak, so poor, that they have had 19 different energy policy frameworks over the course of the last eight years.

According to the movie review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, the worst movie that ever got a sequel was the 1999 flop Baby Geniuses. It's a favourite of Senator McGrath's, I'm told. The critics' consensus reads:

Flat direction and actors who look embarrassed to be onscreen make Baby Geniuses worse than the premise suggests.

Not dissuaded from their Rotten Tomatoes score of two per cent, they released Superbabies: Baby Geniuses 2 in 2004, which received a zero per cent score. The critics' consensus reads:

A startling lack of taste pervades Superbabies, a sequel offering further proof that bad jokes still aren't funny when coming from the mouths of babes.

And so we turn to the modern National Party and 'Re-Joycing Barnaby mark 2'. This week has seen the return, unheralded and unwanted—