Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Cameron will be voting in support of sound public policy and economic responsibility. Senator Cameron has a long and proud tradition of campaigning on behalf of working families in this country and he is keeping it up today. Because when it comes to a choice between giving or not giving a tax cut to 330,000 Australians, he will be voting for it, unlike those opposite. They are leading you down the garden path, Senator Williams. They are leading you to your ultimate destruction. They intend to continue to take your seats. They intend to continue to try and lock you in to mindless economic vandalism that threatens the economic security of this country. And I thought you were smarter than that, because I know you want to try and represent working Australian families. You have raised questions recently in this place representing the interests of working families in this country, and yet today you have a chance to stand up and be counted—and 330,000 Australians will benefit immediately if this legislation is passed—