Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

And to think that Senator Brandis has been looking for reds under his bed all these years. If you believe the HR Nicholls Society, Senator Brandis would be better off looking for reds in the cabinet room.

Why would the HR Nicholls Society be so convinced of the Soviet-style inadequacies of the Work Choices legislation? In a speech on 13 December 2005, Ray Evans blamed ‘the government’s continuing acceptance of the Marxist dogmas’. That is heavy stuff. No wonder the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Minchin, went off grovelling to the HR Nicholls Society on 3 March to do a bit of damage control. But no matter how much grovelling, crawling and backsliding Senator Minchin might have done—