John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

You have Bill Shorten. You have Doug Cameron. You have Richard Marles. You have Mark Butler. And I reckon, after the equivocal things he has said in the past few days, you have Greg Combet. If I were the member for Charlton, I would be pretty concerned that Greg was after my seat. But this is not about the rights of workers; this is about the power of union bosses. That is what this is about. It has nothing to do with the rights of workers. If they had concern for the rights of workers—

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