Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

In a sense he is right, but this guy was your leader! He said:

Little Billy was in my ear about the FTA, telling me the party has to support it. I said I thought both he and his union were against it, to which he responded, 'That's just for the members. We need to say that sort of thing when they reckon their jobs are under threat. I want it to go through. The US alliance is too important to do otherwise. Politically, you have no choice.'

There is Mark Latham saying that Little Billy says one thing to his members and says something else to the leaders of the Labor Party. This man is weak. He is weak, insipidly weak, inconsistent— (Time expired)

Honourable members interjecting—

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