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

I repeat: I can understand why Senator Sterle is so excited about the possibility of a Senate election, because I daresay he and some of his colleagues may well be in for the high jump. I say to the honourable senator that I will seek to do everything I can to protect him from that fate by ensuring that we have a good, working, orderly parliament. I would invite him and his colleagues, like we are doing on this side, to concentrate on the issues facing this nation and to deal with the issues of cost of living and with the issues of job creation. That is rather than worrying about unnamed sources in gossip columns in the newspapers of our country.