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

As promised, within the very first week of the parliament, we introduced legislation to repeal the carbon tax and the mining tax, and we introduced legislation for the Australian Building and Construction Commission and the Registered Organisations Commission. We have got on with the job as promised to the Australian people—and Labor, acting like churls, have opposed every single move, every step of the way. But so manic are they in their opposition—in trying to refuse us the capacity to implement our policy—that they have become so negative they are now moving to ensure that they do not even implement their own policies, as was shown to us this morning in the The Australian Financial Review with 'Labor's own backflip leaves $2.3bn budget hole'. They, over there, went to the Australian people and they are repudiating— (Time expired)