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

I do not think that I can match that performance by Senator Bernardi—that bit of confected anger—but, to continue his allegory, if I am one of the merry men and ladies here of Kevin Rudd, let me just say that we are feared by the bad and loved by the good.

Over the last weekend our Minister for Resources and Energy went to Saudi Arabia to work out a global solution to this difficulty with other major producers, suppliers and consumers. Let me contrast this with the coalition’s position. What is the coalition’s position? At this point, there are six things on offer from the coalition. The first is, as we know, from the interim opposition leader, Brendan Nelson: to cut the fuel excise by—