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

Those opposite are just so anxious not to hear the facts or allow the Australian people to hear the facts, because, once they understand the facts, the Labor Party’s scare campaign will fall to pieces—as it did with the GST, as it did with Work Choices and as it will do in relation to this issue as well. The situation they raise is hugely hypothetical and not deserving of a response.