Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Minister Hunt, of course, is himself from the great state of Victoria; and, like all of those on this side of the chamber, Minister Hunt loves possums too. What I would say to the Senate is that, if possums had the vote, I think possums across Victoria would be going to prepoll stations today in order to vote for Minister Hunt! I say to Senator Rice I do not believe the possums of Victoria have been persuaded by your pamphlets to go into the prepolling stations of Victoria, but I do hope the people of Victoria have been persuaded by the very strong arguments put forward by Premier Napthine and his team, and that is that we need in Victoria is a return of the Napthine Liberal-National government because that is in the best interest of the great people of Victoria.