Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

They certainly did purport to be Family First how-to-vote cards. They were designed very much, Senator Conroy, to look like Family First how-to-vote cards. Michael Brown, the state secretary of the Labor Party, obviously was very inspired by the decision he made there. I do not know whether he was either Senator Conroy or Senator Feeney's candidate for the national secretary's position. I know Mr Brown was very hopeful of his chances there briefly, but, thankfully, those grubby tactics of the South Australian Labor Party were at least not deployed to the national office of the Labor Party on this occasion when you came around to choosing your own national secretary.

It was a very grubby act. We had the partners of Labor Party candidates dressed up in Family First T-shirts handing out how-to-vote cards.