Craig Emerson (Rankin, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Finance Minister on Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

The point I am making is that the decisions of the coalition in terms of their voting behaviour in the Senate are being driven by the ambitions, animosity and avarice of coalition members, and that is not in the national interest. They are behaving in their own personal self-interest, and while they behave in their own personal self-interest the Rudd government will continue to govern in the national interest.

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