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

People like Gary Gray and others may be going around saying, ‘There is a way through on this, comrade,’ but while the leader is away in Brisbane the acting leader is taking every opportunity to nail her colours to the anti-AWA mast. She speaks for the Australian Labor Party, she speaks for Greg Combet and she speaks for Sharan Burrow. Every question she asks is a further illustration of her visceral hatred of AWAs. I would invite the Acting Leader of the Opposition to explain to those hundreds of thousands of Australians who are far better off under AWAs—

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