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

Just in case honourable senators opposite did not hear, let me repeat: the government has never blamed the workers for the loss of jobs in the auto sector. What we have done is, like the former Labor Prime Minister, Mr Paul Keating, who blamed the union bosses in the AMWU for the loss of 100,000 manufacturing jobs—not what we on the coalition side say, but what a former Labor Prime Minister said about the trade union bosses in the AMWU, so let's be very clear that politically we have a bipartisan ticket—