Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

You say that, but we took a very clear position to the Australian people. In particular, let's look at the Northern Territory. We took that proposition to the people of the Northern Territory and the people of the Northern Territory re-elected Mr Gosling by a 10 per cent increased margin. They elected Marion Scrymgour in the seat of Lingiari. They elected Senator McCarthy. The people of Australia elected an Anthony Albanese Labor government. What we are doing is implementing what we told the Australian people we were going to implement before the last election. I think, if we hadn't done that, Senator Lambie, you'd be the first to criticise us. We took the proposition to the Australian people. They elected an Anthony Albanese Labor government. I'm here tonight to implement the promise that we took to the Australian people to get this cashless debit card bill through and that is eventually what we will do tonight.