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

If there was a look of misery on the faces of National Party senators, I would imagine it is because they have to look at Labor senators during question time, and that would be quite understandable!

What the National Party senators are confronted with is a suggestion by the Labor Party that they are somehow concerned about dairy issues and drought. Yet, bar one question, every single question was not about government but gutter. It was dredging the gutter in relation to an issue that is being investigated by the New South Wales police for only one reason, that the serial letter writer, Mark Dreyfus, the shadow attorney, has yet again written a vexatious, vacuous and venal letter to a police authority, seeking to have an investigation into somebody in the coalition. And what have all those letters turned to?