Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Those people on the other side are laughing, but these are the same people that could have put the brakes on Scott Morrison. They could have spoken up, but what they did was allow the Prime Minister to continue on, to try to spin his way out of every issue and every resolution that he made to deceive the Australian people. Mr Morrison really did think—and, I'm sure, continues to think—that he can walk between rain drops. The legacy of the Morrison government will surely be represented by Mr Morrison's traits, and all the lies of the former Prime Minister told.

Mr Morrison was a man with no leadership credentials, no principles and no integrity. The problem was that those on the other side never listened to the former minister for tourism when she sacked Scott Morrison because he failed in that responsibility. He was untrustworthy, and what she did was make sure that Tourism Australia was protected from a man who considered himself to be the marketing guru, a man who would never, ever apologise for any mistakes that he made, a man who would do anything for power and do anything to keep it.

Opposition senators interjecting—

I'm surprised my colleagues on the other side of the chamber are very happy and laughing at the fact that he deceived them. If you consider this chamber and say that it was okay that he took on other ministerial positions without actually having the authority to do that—