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

Mentioning individual cases is always fraught with difficulty, as Senator Cameron ought well know. Indeed, we could ask exactly the same question of all those people that were confronted with exactly the same situation in exactly the same scenario in relation to the January 2008 storms and flooding in the Mackay and Whitsunday regions; or the individuals that were confronted with the February 2008 flooding in Mackay or the November 2008 storms in South-East Queensland, or the May 2009 storms and flooding in South-East Queensland, or the storms in March 2010 in Victoria.

What we have is one of the most infantile examples of Labor doing something is good, coalition doing something is bad by definition. I would have thought these matters would be above this sort of tawdry politics. (Time expired)