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

That is right: and Richo. Thank you, Senator Collins. I watched the Prime Minister make the announcement last week. It was amazing, because the first line she threw out was, ‘Get ready for the mother of all scare campaigns.’ The mother of all scare campaigns has started. And hasn’t it come with a vengeance? It was brilliantly carried off, in their minds, on Friday morning by their favourite darling of talkback radio, the five-time-failed preselection loser for the Liberal Party, Alan Jones, on his radio show. Sure enough, if you bring out the dog whistles, who is there? Alan Jones. I could go on about ultimate betrayals and all those sorts of things and concur with my colleague and friend Senator O’Brien. How did Senator Brandis refer to former Prime Minister John Howard? ‘The lying rodent’. That’s right.