Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

When I search through the list of venues around this country which might be suitable for an event such as the Support Work Choices rally, none of these great stadiums springs immediately to mind. Maybe the rec room at the Marble Bar caravan park, which holds about 50 people, would do. I can see it now: there would be the Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations, with a monkey suit on and not a hair out of place, standing in the kitchen, cutting up the cheese cubes and the cabana; the Prime Minister at the trestle table, setting up the plastic cups and the cask chardonnay—no Barnesy and Working Class Man but perhaps Peter Hendy on the karaoke machine, belting out Puttin’ on the Ritz. As the second hand ticks away on the clock on the wall, nobody comes through the front doors; Howard, Andrews and Hendy look on expectantly, pensively.

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