Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

I will not thank the minister for the answer after that gratuitous playing of the man and not the ball. It is always the way the Labor Party act—if they do not have an argument, they start attacking the man. Senator Sherry did not answer my question. I asked him for the policy rationale behind the rebuilding of Queensland being charged to individuals rather than multinational companies who are ripping profits out of Queensland and Australia and sending them overseas. That was the question, Senator Sherry. You did not answer that. I suspect you did not answer it because you do not have an answer for it. You chose to attack me and say that the coalition had levies. As I recall, the milk levy was on a bottle of milk. Is that right?