STATEMENTS BY MEMBERS

Ms AMBIHAIPAHAR (Barton) (13:53): If you claim to be the alternative prime minister, you should answer basic questions. But the Leader of the Opposition refuses. New South Wales ICAC's Operation Rosny has exposed illegal donations and branch stacking aimed at destroying Liberal rivals, including by the members for Lindsay, Mitchell and Berowra and the former member for Farrer.

Their offence? Refusing to bend the knee to the hard right. What do they make of the man who led that faction, the current leader of the opposition, and his close factional ally and moneyman, Dallas McInerney, who bankrolled the whole thing?

He ducks and weaves whenever the camera turns on. Meanwhile, people in Canterbury face crushing strata fees and crumbling buildings. They're the human cost of this grubby affair.

And what about the Exclusive Brethren—a sect whose members do not vote, who oppose women holding authority and who fly followers around Australia to distribute Liberals material? What was the opposition leader's role in that? Money may have bought this opposition leader plenty, born with a silver spoon in the mouth, but it cannot buy loyalty from his caucus or fool the Australian people.

Here's the question he keeps dodging: how much will this opposition leader spend to try and buy his way to the top?