Peter McGauran (Gippsland, National Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

I withdraw that. There was no putting the national interest ahead of the Labor Party’s interest when it came to that endorsement of Mark Latham. I am concerned also that the Leader of the Opposition is again putting his interests and those of his party ahead of the national interest. In Victoria there is a scandalous situation developing, in which a member of the Labor Party, Khalil Eideh, has been preselected for a safe upper house seat. This is a man who has written to the President of Syria, saying such things as—

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