Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:59): Senator Bilyk, I have heard that observation made by many and I have probably made it myself. Perhaps you have made it yourself in reflecting on the affairs of the Australian Labor Party. When I look at the array in front of me of the Australian Labor Party, all I see is a group of people who are united by nothing but mutual hatred and loathing—mutual hatred and loathing. Opposition senators interjecting— Senator BRANDIS: I see Senator Gavin Marshall, the esteemed former Deputy President of the Senate, cannot conceal his agreement with my remarks. That generous, broad smile of yours, Senator Marshall, conceals the wounds that you have suffered as a result of the disunity, the backstabbing, the Machiavellianism and the disgraceful conduct inflicted upon you by those who, in a previous existence, you used to call comrades.