Grant Chapman (SA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I will withdraw that, but I will recall the nursery rhyme where a leaf drops on Henny Penny’s head and she runs about hysterically telling everyone that the sky is falling in. At this point, I might resist the temptation to cast the Leader of the Opposition as Chicken Little and Peter Garrett as Turkey Lurkey, but I want to emphasise the moral: don’t panic. The Senate’s time ought not be wasted with these sorts of hysterical, hypocritical motions that are simply scaremongering on the part of the Labor Party as a cheap way of winning votes, in contrast to the hard work of doing the hard yards on these policy issues that the government has done. The sky isn’t falling, only Labor’s credibility.