Andrew Leigh (Fenner, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

It's extraordinary to hear the Minister for Energy, the Don Quixote of the parliament, when he's not out tilting at windmills, arguing that Labor is not the party for competition. Labor is the party of competition and will remain the party of competition. Labor is going to the next election advocating that we should give more resources to the ACCC, that we should do postmerger reviews, that we should ban unfair contract terms. But, when it comes to the big stick, this is a policy which the minister has been forced to abandon. He has had to take his big stick and stick it under the table because his big stick is so unloved anywhere he attempts to bring it out.

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