Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I have been guilty, Mr President. Senator Macdonald's strongest case in defence of his colleagues and mates in the Queensland Liberal-National Party is exactly that—that I was facing in the wrong direction. What a committee this is going to be! With strong, intellectual points of order like that, Senator Lazarus, you will have your hands full. Through you, Mr President: Senator Lazarus will have his hands full in dealing with this committee and the sort of raucous abuse, smear and innuendo that you have already seen from those opposite. We will see where this committee leads us. I indicate that the Labor opposition will be supporting this suspension.