Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

You will get your chance, Senator Mason. You will get your opportunity. In all honesty I do not think the government was actually prepared for the brutal and dishonest campaign by the mining industry. They passed the hat around and collected $22 million and did you over, and it was an ugly thing to watch. I can recall the television ads that ran. It evidently destabilised the ALP to the degree that it cost Kevin Rudd the prime ministership of the country. We have not seen that kind of thing in modern political history before.