Ron Boswell (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

The trouble with the Labor Party is that they do not know whether they represent the good blue-collar workers that have stood by them for years and years or if the Greens are leading them around by the nose. When they make that decision the blue-collar workers will be glad, but at the moment the blue-collar workers—the people in the coalmines, the people at Pacific Brands, the good people that pay their union fees—are being sold out by the Labor Party. The Labor Party have deserted them, run away from them, and are now backing the Greens, the people in the leafy suburbs and the doctors’ wives.