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

It was illegal, Senator Carr—that is the point. It was a fraud on the electoral roll. When you point these things out to the Labor Party, who had members of the Labor Party going to jail for electoral fraud, they come into this place and assert there is no such thing as electoral fraud taking place. We say: talk to Karen Ehrmann. She appeared before the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters in prison clothing, and Senator Faulkner had the audacity to question her. I think she made comments to the effect: ‘It’s all very well for you, Senator Faulkner, dressed in your suit. I’m here dressed in prison clothing.’