Hollie Hughes (NSW, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Minister for Mental Health and Suicide Prevention) Share this | Hansard source

They are soft on crime. There's no national security; let in anyone, willy-nilly. The boats are back. Christmas Island's coming back. This level of incompetence is breathtaking, but it is being aided and abetted by those on the crossbench who claim and profess to be about social justice. They say: 'We're all about the welfare of the lower socioeconomic groups; those struggling and those doing it tough. We care about koalas and whales. We worry about the environment.' No, you don't! You worry about whatever cosy deal you can get from the Labor Party and then you'll be in here crying tomorrow because, 'Oh my God, they want to use gas!' Seriously, get some consistency, people! Have some values on something and actually stand by them, rather than capitulating for a billion dollars.

Do you know what we've got at the moment? We've got an Administrative Appeals Tribunal that reviews government decisions. After this, we're going to have an Administrative Appeals Tribunal called the ART, not the AAT. But we're going to have a tribunal that reviews government decisions. At the moment, Australians can apply at the AAT to have the merits of a decision reviewed. After this legislation, they get to apply—at a higher cost, mind you—to the ART. The one big difference is that, at the moment, we have a tribunal that has people appointed who have experience across range of different areas and issues. Instead, what we're going to have with the ART is a tribunal completely stacked with Labor apparatchiks—