Federal election
Mr KENNEDY (Hawthorn) (14:58:528:): It has been a real privilege for the Labor seat of Hawthorn to host federal pre-poll voting in Guest Street. It has been an opportunity for us to reassure voters that the sky has not fallen in under Labor leadership in Hawthorn, which as members know is very much part of Kooyong. However, having said that and made that reassurance, I do have to record just a couple of things that are very disappointing. The thing that particularly disappoints me is that it is fine when you have got all the corflutes with the photos of people et cetera, but there has been some very nasty, grubby stuff from the federal Liberal—I know the state would not do that—on independents. And it goes on and on. It shows revolting photos, all in the independent colours, saying things like, ‘Hung Parliament’, ‘Weak economy’, ‘Gridlock’. And even more than the Prime Minister, say, these independents hate the Liberals—well, imagine that! So I just think that we have got to be professional parliamentarians, not grubby politicians. All of us have got to be professional parliamentarians, not grubby politicians who barely read anything or think anything or whatever. We have got to get away from that, and that sort of behaviour against the independents I think is appalling.