Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I accept your ruling, Mr Deputy President, and I now seek leave to make a short statement.

Leave granted.

The Labor Party come into this place with a lame excuse that this is somehow a complex issue. On 23 March this year it was not a complex issue. What has made it complex for the Australian Labor Party is that they are unable to justify why so many of their affiliated unions, and indeed the state division of the Labor Party, of which their foreign minister, Mr Rudd, is a member, have passed motions in support of this objectionable policy.