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

They're good people, Senator Cadell, who are just starting to figure out that, when you vote Liberal or National, you get Adam Bandt and Senator Faruqi and Senator McKim and Senator Waters. That's what you get. There is an army of Greens members of parliament in the other place who are only there for one reason: Mr Dutton and the Queensland LNP decided they would make sure that they got there.

For people who vote Liberal or National, it's even worse. They've got Peter Dutton, the most extreme right-wing leader of the Liberal Party in Australian political history, a party that has drifted so far from its economic, moral and political philosophy that it is dominated by an increasingly extreme, increasingly influential and increasingly spooky and weird backbench. I'm not looking at anybody in particular, Senator Antic. It's an opposition that hasn't come to grips with opposition. It hasn't come to grips with the defeat that it incurred in the last election, hasn't learned from that defeat and is continuing as 'Morrison's leftovers'. (Time expired)