Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Hawke said in his autobiography that he regarded these ideas of the Leader of the Opposition as an ‘amusing excess’. The point, of course, is that the member for Maribyrnong knows a lot about Fiji but the Leader of the Opposition has not stood by him, so Labor’s one source of expertise on Fijian affairs has now been lost.

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