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

There is one of the more intelligent supporters of the Labor Party in the gallery! If the honourable senator is genuinely concerned about the fate of working men and women in Australia, can she explain to the Australian people why it was acceptable to have one million of our fellow Australians on the economic scrapheap of unemployment—10 per cent of whom were contributed courtesy of Senator George Campbell’s activities as a trade unionist? You do not need my authority for that. Former Labor Party Prime Minister Paul Keating made that allegation of Senator George Campbell. Let us be in no doubt, the unemployment rate is down to 4.6 per cent because of the tough decisions we have taken, and the men and women of Australia know it.