Senator JOYCE (Queensland—Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (15:10): Well, just then, Mr President, the member for Hotham, Simon Findlay Crean, has been sacked. This government is now chaotic. It is out of control. It is beyond contempt that the former leader of the Labor Party, a person who is highly respected, has been sacked by a Prime Minister who has gone completely and utterly rogue. The Prime Minister has gone rogue. The country is without leadership. It is chaotic. I look at Senator Conroy; the man looks like he has seen a ghost, and the ghost looks awfully like Senator Cameron. We have to do something about trying to bring some sanity back into where this nation is. It surely cannot go on like this. We know that there are decent people on the Labor side: Minister Ferguson, Minister Crean—I have to say it—former Minister Evans, former Minister Faulkner. There are decent people, but this chaos has got to come to a conclusion. The Australian people deserve better than this. You cannot use the Australian nation as some sort of plaything for a manic cat. This is out of control—totally and utterly out of control. Now we have Mr Windsor with Mr Oakeshott and Mr Wilkie who have moved votes of no confidence. Well, I told you so: that first they would cripple you, then they would kill you—that is exactly what they would do. Why on earth would you have hitched your caravan to those people? They have done nothing but drag you into oblivion. And here are the other ones, right beside us here: the Greens, with their crazy policies, one after the other, after the other, after the other. They took you on a trip on the carbon tax and destroyed your party. They took you on a trip banning the live cattle trade and destroyed your party. They have taken you on a trip on so many social agendas and destroyed your party. Yet you let them do it to you. Why do you let them do it to you? Why don't you stand up for yourselves? They will leave you nowhere but nihilism. And Mr Oakeshott and Mr Windsor right from the start were going to be trouble. People are saying now, 'Oh, well, if we go from Prime Minister Gillard.' I don't know where you will end up at 4.30—who would know? Who would know who will be the Prime Minister by tonight? Who would know how many more prime ministers this nation will have? But it is not going to be the Prime Minister that causes you the problem. It is the debt, Senator Conroy, that is going to cause you a problem—$268.8 billion in gross debt, and we are heading towards our next ceiling. Of course, Minister Conroy will talk about net debt, but he cannot explain it. He does not care—we are just going through credit limits: went through the $75 billion limit, went through the $200 billion limit, went through the quarter of a trillion dollar limit and are nudging up against the $300 billion. It is the most tawdry financial management that any nation has ever had— Senator Wong interjecting— Senator JOYCE: and, Minister Wong, you were the finance minister for it. You caused it. You brought this upon yourself. You are hopeless, and you will be marked by the Australian people. The PRESIDENT: Senator Joyce, you should address your comments to the chair. Senator Wong interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order, Senator Wong! Senator Joyce, you need to address your comments to the chair and I will ask you to be quiet until we have some silence in the chamber. You will get the call; you know how this place works. Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: When there is silence! Senator Joyce. Senator JOYCE: Mr President, what we have heard today from the Labor Party has a very apt name. We hear them all the time; we hear them at solemn occasions. They are called eulogies. We have heard a number of eulogies because it is all over; it is all finished. It is goodbye to the government. It is goodbye to sanity. It will be hello chaos at 4.30. And why did we do this? Where is Mr Paul Howes now? We better find out. We better go and find out what he wants to do. We better find out from him where he wants to take this nation. We better talk to the Greens about where this nation goes next. We better find out what would make Mr Oakeshott and Mr Windsor happy again. They were happy with chaos and they are obviously getting unhappy that we might fix it up. What is the next lot of chaos going to be—the NBN? Was it the ceiling insulation, green loans, debt, deficit, carbon tax, mining tax or live cattle trade that brought this nation to its knees under this chaotic and hopeless government? Well, it was the fact that they tried to join together three pieces of an incredible puzzle. How on earth did the Labor Party allow themselves to get hooked up with the Independents, hooked up with the Greens and hooked up with this chaos? How on earth did they let themselves get to a position where they dispensed with their first Prime Minister? How on earth did we get to this position right now? This might be the last time that I ever speak in this chamber, but it is a disgrace and our nation deserves better than this. Our nation deserves so much better than this, and I hope that, whatever you do at 4.30 pm, you give some dignity back to this nation. (Time expired) Honourable senators interjecting— The PRESIDENT: Order! Senator Wong, I am waiting to put the question. Order, Senator Joyce and Senator Wong! Order on both sides! The question is that the motion moved by Senator Abetz be agreed to.