John Williams (NSW, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I must comment on some of the remarks made by Senator Cameron. He talks about working families. It is amazing how these union reps refer to working families. As I have said before in the Senate, it was the shearers that started the Labor Party under the Tree of Knowledge at Barcaldine, but not one member of the Labor Party would know how to load a handpiece, let alone knock the wool off a sheep. Perhaps Senator Stephens would. We look through the list of all the Labor MPs here and all the senators and they could not even shear a sheep. They talk about sticking up for the workers. They could not even shear a sheep. That is where they come from, that is where they have lost it and that is where the roots are for the working man. Remember the days when it used to be ‘One man, one job’. The wife could not work, but that has been changed now, thank goodness.