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

I am aware that the ALP are seeking to rewind the clock well over two decades to when their forebears saw the need to sell Qantas. As Labor Minister Willis said at the time, this was 'to allow the airlines greater access to equity capital'. That was the reason that Labor undertook those reforms—and it seems now, a generation later, that the successors of the Hawke-Keating reforms have basically abandoned those reforms, denied their own history and are now pretending that government ownership would be better than that which their own forebears realised over two decades ago were so absolutely essential: the privatisation of Qantas and Australian Airlines. It seems as though the incarnation of the current Labor Party is nowhere near— (Time expired)