Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I do not know who made that interjection, but can I say—and I said this before—that the same misfortune has not befallen me, not because I am inherently better. As I said before, it was more by good luck than good management. But what I am pointing out today is what we sought to point out last time when Senator Brown made cheap political capital against the coalition: be careful it does not befall you, because you will look exceedingly foolish. Today that look of exceeding foolishness has fallen upon Senator Brown by his own misfortune, by his own inadvertence.