Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

And you could just imagine it: halfway down the straight, looking for riding instructions, Mr Beazley would be looking into the stand for Mr Combet, who would be waving his arms. So he would pull up the nag, look over to Mr Combet, get his instructions and—do you know what he’d do?—he would turn the nag around and run it back in a different direction. And I will tell you why: in November last year, when Mr Beazley was asked about his view on Work Choices, this is what he said:

... using the corporations power to do industrial relations legislation, that’s all wrong.

No ifs and buts:

... that’s all wrong.

But on Friday, the Leader of the Opposition said that using the corporations power would be okay.