Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

What we have seen in this debate was not triggered by the opposition. It was not triggered by the union movement. It was not triggered by the workers. It was triggered by an unnamed cabinet source—some gutless wonder who sits on the Treasury benches. He did not have the courage to put his name to it but he leaked it to the ABC, the Advertiser and the Australian. He did that in an attempt to shift blame, to create a crisis and to talk down a great Australian brand. It is that unnamed source—that gutless wonder—who is responsible for this entire debate. What we have is a government—

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