Dean Smith (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

You will enjoy this Senator Bilyk; please let me finish in the time I have available to me.

What did Labor members say following the September 2013 election? What did the Labor member for Wakefield, Mr Nick Champion, say? He said in an interview on ABC radio's AM program on 11 September 2013 with regard to the carbon tax:

I don't see why the Labor Party should necessarily stay wedded to this concept when everybody else has walked away from it in one form or another.

That is what the Labor member for Wakefield said immediately following the federal election.