Robert Simms (SA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Instead, I am being heckled when I am talking about the rights of working people. Might I say, if we want to talk about selling out low-income earners, I mentioned before the appalling deal that the Labor Party did at the eleventh hour on the last day of parliamentary sitting last year, when they slashed the student scholarships and turned them into a HECS loan. They have got more front than John Martin's when they start pushing this nonsense about people selling out. It is getting so old. I think people can see through it. The Greens do not want to play politics with the issue of penalty rates, but it seems like the Labor Party do tonight. We support the rights of working people and we will always defend them in this place.