Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Employment) Share this | Hansard source

I think on this side we can all understand the great sensitivity by former Minister Carr, who presided over the announcement of Mitsubishi to leave Australia and also Ford to leave Australia. I was asked by the Leader of the Opposition in this place about these pernicious briefings. As I said at the very beginning of my answer, I do not know of any pernicious briefings by any minister in the government. I then went on to remind those opposite—