Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

There's a lot I could say, but out of consideration for the other speakers who I know want to speak on this, I'll keep my remarks quite brief. I won't go on at length, as I could, about the utter shamelessness of Senator Cash, of all people, coming in and lecturing anyone about consultation, about lawlessness and about courtesy—or, for that matter, anyone from the former government wanting to lecture anyone about sexist behaviour and homophobia. I think everyone understand the utter shamelessness of anyone from the former government lecturing anyone about those matters. There are any number of judicial comments I could refer to—and I referred to some in question time yesterday—which point out the trivial nature of so much of the activity of the ABCC, run up at taxpayers' expense.