Senator SESELJA (Australian Capital Territory—Assistant Minister for Finance, Charities and Electoral Matters) (15:07): I wanted to echo a number of the sentiments that were there in Senator McAllister's contribution about absolutely the need for women and men to feel safe in the workplace, for there to be no discrimination, bullying, harassment or any other poor behaviour of any sort from people in this place, whether they be ministers of the Crown, whether they be shadow ministers, whether they be members of parliament. So we are on a unity ticket in terms of condemning that kind of behaviour. In relation to Minister Tudge and Minister Porter, I would refer to the statements that they have issued. The Prime Minister holds the ministerial staff code of conduct and the ministerial code of conduct in the highest regard. He holds it to the highest standards. In fact, it's why the Prime Minister strongly supported the inclusion of a ban on relations between ministers and their staff in 2018, and the Prime Minister continues to uphold that ban. Separately, in 2018, the Prime Minister directed the Liberal Party to review its complaints and disputes resolution processes. This resulted in the Liberal Party's first National Code of Conduct and the Complaints and Dispute Resolution Policy. I wanted to turn to the other aspect of questioning from those opposite, and that was around quality of spend. This was what the Labor Party decided to devote much of question time to today. The Labor Party—the party of pink batts, the party of cash for clunkers, the party of cheques for dead people, the party of school hall rorts—decided that they wanted to make a point of quality spending. To use as their example, and to show just how out of touch they are, they decided to compare and contrast their wonderful record of spending with things like the Urban Congestion Fund; that was one of the things they were criticising today. The Labor Party are sitting there with their woeful record of managing the budget and managing the economy. They come in here—and we've got Senator Ciccone, a senator for Victoria—and criticise the fact that there were a lot of Urban Congestion Fund projects— The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Seselja, please take your seat. Senator Keneally? Senator Keneally: I just call to your attention that Senator Seselja is reflecting on who is in the chamber and who is not—in this case, who is. He is not meant to do that in the course of debate. The DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Seselja, I do remind you that the President did make particular note that during COVID time—and this week, given that we are still operating on remote participation—it wouldn't be appropriate to make note of who is in the chamber and who isn't. The President made that statement some time ago. Senator SESELJA: Through you, Deputy President: senators for Victoria, like Senator Ciccone and others, would be highly embarrassed by the line of attack from the Labor Party today, where, in comparing and contrasting their woeful record of spending, they decided to go after the Urban Congestion Fund and the fact that Melbourne—which was growing very rapidly up until COVID—had significant investment from the Commonwealth government in helping people to get to and from work more quickly and more safely. The modern Labor Party decide that that is their line of attack, or that support for small business is their line of attack, or that environmental remediation on the Great Barrier Reef is their line of attack, and they invite us to compare and contrast. We do compare and contrast today, because of the critique of the Labor Party that is coming from the member for Hunter. The member for Hunter has very much belled the cat on what the modern Labor Party stands for. I would put this to senators today: if there is no room on the Labor Party front bench for people like the member for Hunter, Mr Fitzgibbon, that is a message to millions of Australians that there is no room in the modern Labor Party for them—for working people in our regions, for people in the Hunter, for people in Central and North Queensland, for people in Northern Tasmania or for people in regional Victoria. These are the people to whom the Labor Party, by forcing the member for Hunter out of his frontbench position today, have sent a message. They have sent a message saying: 'You're not welcome. We no longer stand for you.' That is what Mr Fitzgibbon is effectively saying today. The Leader of the Opposition—'Each-Way Albo', as he's known, but we'll refer to him as the Leader of the Opposition in here—is constantly changing tack. He is pro-gas when he's in the Hunter and pro-coal when he's in Central Queensland, but anti those things when he goes back to Grayndler or central Melbourne. He is trying to be all things to all people. This week we saw the embarrassing thing where he wanted the Prime Minister to call President Trump, and then he said, 'No, no, I didn't say he should call him.' They are embarrassed over that side. They are embarrassed at what the opposition leader is doing, but they are more embarrassed, and the member for Hunter is more embarrassed, at what the modern Labor Party stands for. If people like Mr Fitzgibbon aren't welcome in the modern Labor Party on the front bench, then millions of Australians aren't welcome in the Labor Party either.