John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

and the number of strikes continues to diminish. The world does not come to an end. I know you are sad and unhappy. I know you are devastated. It didn’t quite work out as you had hoped, but the Australian people, as every week goes by, know that your crowd have been running a phoney scare campaign about Work Choices. They are awake to you. They will increasingly realise how you have tried to dupe them and they will know, as the months go by, that the best friend the workers of Australia have are the Liberal and National parties.

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