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

Senator McEwen seems to be reading from a press release of Senator Wong’s on this subject. Senator Wong issued a press release saying, ‘There’s something fishy about Howard’s oysters’—very droll, Senator Wong! What I think is actually fishy, through you, Mr President, to Senator McEwen, is the behaviour of the South Australian Labor Party in dumping Senator Wong to the No. 2 position and dumping Senator Kirk right off the ticket to put a union hack called Don Farrell, a failed Labor candidate from 1988, into the No. 1 position on the Senate ticket. That is what is very fishy, Senator McEwen. As to your question about—