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

Senator Evans interjects and says, ‘It was just a question’. That is the way the Australian Labor Party always behave. There is the smear, there is the imputation and there is the suggestion when they have no basis in fact to make that assertion during question time. That is why the people of Australia are just not buying the nonsense that the Australian Labor Party are continually putting forward about Work Choices, because each time you examine their assertion, each time you examine the smear or the innuendo, it is found to be completely and utterly without foundation.