Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

Don't you worry about that, I'm coming back to the topic. On all the 'bring back Josh' stuff: if something goes really badly, try it again. I urge the Victorian Liberal Party to do that, that would be good. But we can never forget the photos of Justice Hayne and the former Treasurer; I have never seen a more unhappy couple. There was one who actually believed in proper financial regulation and one who was actually doing everything that he could to avoid it.

And then we saw the sorry months and years that followed that announcement. No reform—nothing happened. Now we have a government that is introducing reforms in a steady, careful and methodical way. Reform is difficult, but I find this MPI resolution really interesting. It's got two sentences in it. Within those two sentences, it attacks the government for not consulting and then condemns the government for consulting. This is an incoherent, out-of-place and misconceived MPI. I expect we'll see many more of them in 2023.