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

Sometimes I think you have to be on crack to read the gossip columns and then take them seriously, like Senator Sterle does, to regurgitate them in this place!

I do not intend to use my days and hours reading these gossip columns. They are simply of no interest to me. What that question shows, yet again, is that the Australian Labor Party and its senators—fond as I am of Senator Sterle—dedicate themselves not to policy and a new direction for our country but on reading gossip columns and then thinking they can construct clever questions around—