This is exactly the kind of shit that the ALP’s style-over-substance preselection of celebrity candidates produces:

ALP federal candidate Nicole Cornes has stumbled on radio while trying to explain her party’s industrial relations policy.

[...]

Asked by ABC 891 morning announcer Matthew Abraham about Labor’s alternative to the Federal Government’s WorkChoices, Ms Cornes stumbled and went silent…

“AWAs allow for over $100,000…,” she said before inexplicably going silent.

Abraham was forced to ask “what do you mean, sorry?”

Ms Cornes tried to recover.

“AWAs take away penalty rates, WorkChoices…”

Abraham again had to ask “what do you mean by they allow for over $100,000?”

Ms Cornes said: “They don’t allow for people to negotiate over $100,000.”

But, finally, Abraham had to rescue her.

“Federal Labor believes workers earning under $100,000 per year should be protected in the workplace by a strong safety net,” Abraham said.

Ms Cornes agreed: “They should be.”

(source)

There goes a couple of hundred more swinging voters who were considering voting Labor — and who can blame them?