James McGrath (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

But if you sort of scratch it a little bit, you know who is actually running Queensland: it is the union barons. The union barons are back in charge, because is going to be a government for the union paymasters—for the Queensland Council of Unions, for United Voice, for the thuggish Electrical Trades Union. Each of these had their representatives at the swearing in at Government House. Labor's union backers are back in town, senators. They chose the cabinet—

Honourable senators interjecting—