Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

This, allegedly, was to be a debate that was going to lift the parliament, and the Leader of the Government, with his very divisive interjections, is just showing what this debate is all about from the government’s point of view. It is to try to put a wedge into the Australian community over this issue. We in the coalition believe it should be a decision for each government to determine from time to time—