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

Hubris? I don't even know what that means. I didn't do Greek at Glen Innes High School—I was flat out passing English! We had a week that began with the sorts of creatures who inhabit the Victorian component of the Liberal-National party out here cohabiting with these extremists and loons on the far right of Victorian politics—vaccine denialists and conspiracy theorists. And we had senior former and current Liberal politicians saying, 'What about Dan Andrews's stairs?', hanging out with utter extremists and enabling violence at polling booths. They thought they might surf through to a victory and got comprehensively flogged last Saturday.

You would think that there'd be a moment of self-reflection, but we're seeing the same stunts from over here. We're about to see another one from Senator Bragg this afternoon, in the greatest game of inside baseball you'd ever see, with his matter of public importance. I'm looking forward to that discussion. Then you have hyperbolic claims from this lot. On this side we will do sensible reform. We'll do it carefully. We'll do it methodically. We'll do what we said we were going to do and we'll do it in a straightforward, sensible order. I commend the bill to the Senate.