Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

I am tempted to ask for extra time for Senator Bishop, because I think he was about to destroy and tear apart the great claims the government make about health reform and how important health reform is. He seemed to be saying it was a disgrace that the states had given away their GST income. There were many remarkable things about what Senator Bishop just said. I note firstly that Senator Bishop did not mention Kevin Rudd’s name once in his contribution. I wonder why that is. He did not have the courage to mention Kevin Rudd’s name.