Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I daresay that out there in radio land a lot of people are chuckling at the moment in relation to that response. The assertion was that there was ambiguity and uncertainty with the opposition amendments. We had this embarrassingly long, deathly silence and then finally the minister comes up with, and is armed with, this absolutely explosive response: it will create imbalance. That is just another word. Undoubtedly someone looked up a thesaurus or something and said, ‘What’s another word for ambiguity or uncertainty?’ And then they said, ‘Let’s try the word imbalance this time.’