Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Banking and Financial Services) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I was fierce in my critique of Senator Joyce but he was fierce in his critique of the Labor Party’s position, and he has just returned fire. I make the fundamental point—it does not seem to have got through to Senator Joyce yet—that this is Liberal-National Party legislation we are dealing with. It is Senator Joyce’s own mates who drew up the legislation. It is your own mate the Prime Minister, Mr Howard; your own mate Senator Minchin, the Minister for Finance and Administration; and your own mate, the Treasurer, Mr Costello, who have presented us—