Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for the Murray Darling Basin) Share this | Hansard source

Kevin Rudd certainly has not forgotten it. Indeed, nor have some of those who appear to still be loyal to the former Prime Minister, because they are happy to still talk about it. In fact, they are happy to consider what the Prime Minister is doing now, against what she told the former Prime Minister he should do. They are very happy to consider that. One of them is quoted in today’s newspapers as saying:

If Julia says she believes that the scheme she is proposing is the right policy, why didn’t she believe that last year when she told Kevin to dump his scheme?

Well, that is a fine question, isn’t it!