Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Please do. I would like to hear the ongoing saga of Senator Sterle’s rude and irrelevant objections—but he is not going to repeat them, so I cannot respond. Let me repeat what I said, in case that encourages him: under the Labor Party’s high interest rate regime, where fuel prices continue to rise in spite of a promise by Mr Rudd before the election to bring them down, we realise that the heavy freight sector is doing it tough. I understand Senator Sterle is a former Transport Workers Union operative.