Bob Carr (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

When all allowances are made that this is the end of the parliamentary session, it has been an exhausting week, the questions have been used and misused and it has been a tactical disaster for those opposite for two or three sitting weeks—a tactical disaster—and that we know that oppositions get to the bottom of the barrel towards the last sitting days, I cannot help the honourable senator. I have no idea whether Mr Craig Thomson is chairman of that group. He could be—