Gavin Marshall (Victoria, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I know it must be a very difficult transition from government to opposition, but the former government were arrogant and out of touch and now they are over there on the opposition benches flailing around and trying to find an issue. They start off with the first question to Minister Carr, accusing him of misleading the parliament, and they selectively quote one part of the Hansard and misrepresent it here. It was Senator Abetz who asked the question, and I am not surprised that he is not here today. Did he know you were going to ask this question? Did he know you were actually going to run this line of questioning? He knows that was not what Minister Carr said. He actually said so yesterday and it is in the Hansard.