Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

You are not going to deny it, are you? You were up to your neck in it. You were going to be a lot tougher on this issue, but Mr Rudd was not tough on this issue at all. We have heard nothing but con and spin. You are now breaking all records. The biggest insult, as I said, is that Senator Carr could not get out of the chamber quick enough today. This is the first real opportunity since the new parliament convened that we have had to debate the issue in this chamber, be it during question time or when taking note of answers to questions, but Senator Carr would not stay back to debate the issue of his new responsibilities. This is the contempt that they are showing.

Earlier during this debate I happened to hear an interjection from across the table. I do not know who else heard it. Senator Cash was speaking at the time, so she probably did not hear it, but I heard it. I will not say who said it, but it was along the lines of: ‘Where are your Christian values in that?’ It is typical of the Labor Party to play that hypocritical moral Christian card. I pose these moral questions to the other side and to the senator who will follow me in this debate. Is it you?