Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Sercombe, the former member for Maribyrnong, was also disendorsed. Most interestingly, when the Labor Party introduced their unfair dismissal law experiment, do you know, Mr President, who the first parliamentarian was who fell foul of that law? Was it a coalition member or senator? No. They know who it was. It was none other than the then member for Bowman, Con Sciacca. What you have is the Labor Party preaching for political opportunism but not practising it themselves with their own staff or their own members and senators, who they regularly seek to disendorse simply because they happen to belong to the wrong trade union or the wrong faction. What the minister said last night on Lateline was very clear, and the unlawful protection guarantee is there for all workers.