Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I do wish to make my contribution to this matter of public importance. Unlike some others, I've got some skin in the game here because I actually know what I'm talking about. From the sins of my previous life I've had to sit through RRAT Senate estimates day in, day out until ridiculous hours of the night, listening to all the same questions being regurgitated year in, year out, day in, day out—you get the drift, Madam Acting Deputy President Polley. But I'll have a crack without a written speech and see how far I can go, and you won't have to hear me parrot party lines because, unlike some of them over on that side, I actually ran my own business. I didn't just come through the system, work for—