Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Education and Training) Share this | Hansard source

When Senator Wong and the Labor Party don't get their way, what do we get? We get stunts. We get delaying tactics. We get insults. She directed insults at Senator Patrick. Senator Carr directed insults at Senator Hanson. There are plenty of other insults that come, because, if they don't get their way, there's a great big dummy spit. And, my, what a dummy spit we see from the Labor Party! They cannot accept the fact that the majority of the Australian Senate want to give tax relief to Australian workers. They cannot accept it. And then we get threats. Senator Wong sits there and she says to Senator Cormann across the table, 'We will ensure you will regret this.' That's it: the threats of the Australian Labor Party—threats, insults, stunts, delaying tactics and no principle, because for them it's just all about the game. It's all about the game of delaying the government's agenda.

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