Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw it. My point was about hearing that from the likes of Senator Campbell, who prides himself on being an old-time unionist. I heard Senator Sterle say that too, but he is nothing of the sort. I will say that Senator Campbell comes from the deepest of union roots, and that probably goes back to Northern Ireland. My point was that he has simply fallen in line behind the Labor Party policy to object to this for the sake of opposition, for the sake of objecting to it simply because it is yet another government reform. There has not been a reform that the other side have not objected to, from our very first term when we sought to balance the budget. They were against balancing budgets. They were against reducing debts. They were against our first tranche of industrial relations reforms. They were against—