Don Farrell (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Trade and Tourism) Share this | Hansard source

In response to the questions from the shadow minister I think I'd start at the beginning, and that starts with the election result, where Labor took a position to the Australian people where we said, because of all the problems with the cashless debit card, that we were going to move to abolish that card. So, that was the position that we took to the Australian people. We didn't do that lightly. We did it after much thought. But, more particularly, we did it after much consultation. People like Senator McCarthy traipsed up and down the Northern Territory in the seats of Lingiari and Solomon, both of which were saved by campaigns that Senator McCarthy conducted in the Northern Territory. And in all of those discussions and consultations with, can I say, a damned sight more people than you would have spoken to, Senator Ruston, in the course of the—