Warren Snowdon (Lingiari, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence Science and Personnel) Share this | Hansard source

‘That is totally untrue’—they say it with smiles on their faces! The smiling assassins—look at them! They sit over there and say one thing to us publicly—that in fact they support the government’s proposition in relation to this stimulus package—and then go outside of this place and try to white-ant the messengers; that is, the people talking about what this economy should be like and the people making projections for what we can anticipate in future months. They do not like the picture, so they try to shoot the messenger. Not a very smart thing to do.

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