Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

This really does demonstrate what a pathetic opposition we have. They have already run out of questions on what they said was going to be the big killer issue this week. They were going to come in here and really take the government to task on the whole AWB issue. Then Mr Beazley had to wave the white flag very quickly by saying, ‘We’re not going to get any scalps.’ Already, after a few questions, they have given up on AWB. They have taken their question from listening to the six o’clock news on the ABC this morning, which reported, on my information, in quite an exaggerated fashion a conversation that took place between Senator Heffernan and Senator Nash.