Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party have given up on labourers, in hot pursuit of vegan burgers up and down Glebe Point Road, they have given up on people at the Fitzroy Hotel at Depot Hill and they have given up on people at the Railway Hotel at Cessnock. The Labor Party have lost their soul. They will not let the member for Grayndler, who actually is responsible for building things, speak. He is in splendid isolation—he can't say boo. The man has lost his tongue; he is talking in sign language. What happened to the party that used to be the party of Ben Chifley—Ben Chifley, a railway worker? Where are the Ben Chifleys in the Labor Party these days? Where are the Clyde Camerons in the Labor Party these days? Where are the Mick Youngs in the Labor Party these days? Where are the people in the Labor Party who actually did labour, who actually did manual work? We hear a lot about the school teachers and a lot about the solicitors, and fair enough, but they have given up on labourers. Where are the people who should be standing up for people in the CFMEU? What about the people in the CFMEU? When are you going to start standing up for workers?

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