Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

You have just confirmed how hopeless your tactics are. If you are still supporting that bill—in spite of all of your own policies from the last parliament that you are rejecting and the ones you are rejecting in the Senate—why are you continuing to delay it through these kinds of stunts and pathetic tactics?

We cannot be lectured by the Labor Party on issues to do with veterans or anything to do with their families or their children. The member for Fadden has provided me with a very useful book, The Little Book of Labor's Defence Backflips. Let me just go through them, because they highlight why this motion for a suspension of standing orders should not be carried.

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