Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

Fortunately, Australia does have a government which is tackling the problems of today and tomorrow. What we fortunately do not have in government is an opposition which wants to take us back to the future with the most backward-looking industrial relations proposals anyone ever invented. What is Mr Rudd’s big idea? To go back to the 1960s approach to industrial relations, to go back to the 1980s approach to providing broadband for this country and to rehash WA Inc. and the Victorian Economic Development Corporation. We know about the party that is back to the future, and that is the Australian Labor Party.