Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the Leader of the Opposition very much for that question. I suppose I begin by saying: what has happened to the great Liberal Party of Australia where it now invokes, as its total authority, either the New South Wales Teachers Federation, the Australian Education Union or—as I think we had last week—Unions New South Wales? One by one, those opposite invoke unionists, who now they regard as their friends, when they spent their period in office trying to abolish the entire Australian trade union movement as a matter of law. But I thank Comrade Tony for his question, because it goes—

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