Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I refer the minister to comments made by the HSU's Kathy Jackson on Lateline, where she said:

I think that this is another Sussex Street special where they think they can disaffiliate and then, once all this heat is off the Government, the Sussex Street boys will … have the union going back into the ALP.

Aren't the disaffiliation of the HSU from the ALP and Michael Williamson's subsequent resignation as party VP simply a Sussex Street smokescreen designed only to protect this government?