Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I apologise. Through you, Acting Deputy President, Senator Seselja will be scuttling out from under the doormat and he will say to the public servants, 'Oh, I'm sorry, I can't do anything for you.' Of course he cannot do anything for them—you have got to have a backbone before you can do something for your electorate! You have got to have a bit of courage, a bit of commitment. Stand up. Do not try to climb up the greasy pole, Senator Seselja. Stand up for your electorate. Stand up for the poorest in this country. You actually chaired this Senate inquiry—

The ACTING DEPUTY PRESIDENT: Senator Cameron, address your remarks to the chair.

Senator Seselja was the chair of this inquiry for some of the period. So you have got to say that Senator Seselja has got absolutely no compassion for the unemployed, absolutely no understanding of the needs of the unemployed. People came to that Senate inquiry and said, 'Senator Seselja, you've got it wrong.' They were looking around for Senator Seselja and they could not find him because he was under the doormat! They made submissions to Senator Seselja but they could not find him, they did not know where he was. He was under the National Party doormat and he was screwing unemployed Australians. (Time expired)