Slade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I rise today to speak directly to the many millions of Australians who support the Liberal Party, the National Party, the LNP and the CLP right across Australia. I remind them that sometimes it can be tough. We see wall-to-wall Labor governments across Australia with their alliance partners, the Greens, and we all suffer from the hubris they now represent, the arrogance and the overreach we're seeing from Labor-Green alliance governments right across Australia.

I want to remind those supporters of the Liberal Party, the coalition, the National Party, the CLP and the LNP that the tide does turn. I'll take them back to 2007, to the loss of government by the Howard prime ministership. We saw wall-to-wall Labor right across Australia. We saw the same hubris, the same arrogance and the same overreach. Within a very short period of time in WA—Senator Sterle, you'll remember this very well—we saw one of those arrogant, overreaching, hubristic Labor governments go to a sneaky election during the Olympics, and, against all the polling and against all the odds, we saw the Barnett Liberal government be the first domino to fall in a return of Liberal, National, LNP and CLP governments across Australia. I say to those opposite: rumours of our death are greatly exaggerated. I say to all our supporters out there: the Liberal Party will come back, and we will get rid of this arrogant, hubristic government at the next election.