Mr PYNE (Sturt—Minister for Defence and Leader of the House) (14:44): Mr Speaker, I represent the Minister for Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives, so I'll answer this question. The simple truth is that, if there's been such a report— The SPEAKER: No, I'm not satisfied with that. I need— Mr PYNE: He's flicked it to me. The SPEAKER: Okay. That's fine, the Prime Minister has indicated— Mr PYNE: I'm happy to take the question, Prime Minister. We always check every single claim the Labor Party make about any sort of report, especially in the media, before we decide whether it's fact or not. That has been our tradition in this place. As the minister who represents the Minister for Foreign Affairs, I can tell you, Mr Speaker, that we have every confidence in Joe Hockey as our ambassador in Washington DC. He is a former distinguished member of this House. He's a former distinguished Treasurer who did a great deal more to get this economy back on track than any member of the Labor Party ever has. One of the reasons that we are reaping the benefits today of budget surpluses and a strong economy is the work that Joe Hockey did when he was a distinguished member of this House. Mr Conroy interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Shortland! Mr PYNE: The first point I would make is that we have every confidence in the integrity of Joe Hockey, our ambassador in Washington. The second point I would make is that we have had absolutely no confidence in the integrity of many members of the Labor Party over the many years that I've been in this place. We are being lectured about fiscal rectitude by the Labor Party—the party of Eddie Obeid and Joe Tripodi; the party of Rex Jackson, if you want to go back a few decades; the party of Craig Thomson; the party that required a royal commission— Opposition members interjecting— The SPEAKER: Members on my left! Mr PYNE: to get out of the Leader of the Opposition a donation that he'd forgotten all about. It took eight years. It is the party of John Setka, whom they revered and put into a position of importance in the Labor Party, and of Ian Macdonald. There were almost as many people from the Labor Party ministry in prison as out of it after the Keneally government! Mr Hill interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for Bruce will leave under 94(a). The member for Bruce then left the chamber. Mr PYNE: So we will not be lectured by the Labor Party about integrity or about fiscal rectitude in this place. We all know what's going on here. The Prime Minister nailed it earlier: the Labor Party have had a shocker of a couple of weeks. They thought the big story out of this fortnight would be the Canberra bubble. They thought it would be about votes in the House of Representatives—who was up and who was down. But it isn't. The story out of this fortnight is that Labor is weak on border protection and cannot be trusted.