Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Hansard source

I sort of feel sorry for Senator Dean Smith having to advance that blizzard of words that really betrays the lack of substance and the lack of seriousness that sits behind what passes for economic policy from a once great political party that took economic policy seriously. You wouldn't have caught Mr Peacock or Mr Howard or any of those characters, less than six months out from an election, without any substance on anything.

Well may he say 'back on track'. I have a few things to say about that in a moment, but I just observe that when I began my career in the labour movement there was an outfit called 'back on track'. It was a Trotskyite outfit in the building industry supported by the BLs from Melbourne—