Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Climate Change and Water) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Senator McEwen, for your supplementary question. We all remember one other proposal that Mr Abbott came down to South Australia to sell: that was his referendum. Does everyone remember that? Senator Birmingham could not help himself: he was out there talking up the referendum. The member for Sturt held community meetings on the referendum and the member for Mayo trumpeted it: ‘We’re going to hold a referendum!’ But, of course, someone forgot to tell Barnaby. Someone forgot to tell Senator Joyce, because it appears that over the weekend the National Party have rolled Tony Abbott—