Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I tell you what, this is all very relevant because of the behaviour of this lot in this chamber. Forty-one pieces of legislation. I remind you, Senator Back, coming from Western Australia, that there are a lot of Western Australians hanging on that legislation being passed. You are just as guilty as the other ones opposite. But this lot over there go on the attack on anyone who says anything against them, because they have to be the gatekeepers to all the intelligentsia in the bush. I cannot help this because it is absolutely amazing watching them. If someone from the bush has a different view than those on the RRAT committee, oh my goodness, don’t they cop it. Don’t they get the absolute personal attack because they have got no idea what they are talking about, but the three or four senators from the opposition—