Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy President, you and I were sitting next to each other in question time and you may recall that I commented to you that I thought it was ‘pensioner day’ today because Senator Kemp got up and then Senator Lightfoot. I am not sure whether to categorise Senator Ian Macdonald that way. I do not know whether he has one foot in the grave or not. That is for his own side to work out.

I want to comment on the silly strategy that the opposition conducted today. The minister in charge of petrol pricing is Chris Bowen, the Assistant Treasurer. Not one of the opposition’s questions was to the Assistant Treasurer.