Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

If you're serious about your constituents—and I suspect that few Labor people are; the only constituent they are interested in is the union movement, who put them here, and that is the constituency they respond to all the time. But, if you do have a hospital that has a problem, don't issue a media release and get your photo in the local rag; go and see the minister and try and fix the problem.

Opposition senators: We did!

That is what senators should do. That is what senators on this side do.

Senator Urquhart interjecting—

Senator O'Neill interjecting—