Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I am quaking in my boots! If you think threatening me with getting kicked out is going to prevent me from expressing my views, you have got another think coming. This minister deserves the contempt of this House, as he deserves the contempt of every fair-minded Australian. This House should condemn him because he briefs the papers—he did—in this country: 'These are facts.' He proudly briefs the facts, smearing suburbs and smearing good Australians. And on what basis did he smear Davoren Park over? On the basis of 124 people. There are 5,000 people in Davoren Park. There are many, many more in the northern suburbs of Adelaide. There are many, many more suburbs all over this country, and they had to wake up yesterday and read this in the paper.

My question to the minister—if I am allowed to put it—is: what does he say to Betty Alberton and Caesar Alberton who live in Davoren Park? What does he say to those people who have worked hard all of their lives to buy a house in Davoren Park and who woke up yesterday to find that they are in bludger central—according to the Adelaide Advertiser? This is generated by this minister and this government, and he should be ashamed of himself.

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