Kevin Andrews (Menzies, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

their conference in Adelaide, of the Leader of the Opposition saying that he could not do anything about it. He was too weak to stand up to the union bosses in that instance. Today he came out and said, ‘Oh, we’ll get that changed.’ On the weekend he was too weak to stand up and say, ‘I’m going to have a media conference at the site of the conference.’ He had to go out to the car park. Today he says, ‘We’ll change this policy.’ I note that instead of having the guts to say, ‘I will change the policy,’ he says, ‘I’ll get the national executive of the ALP to do it.’ That is not leadership. It was interesting that the Leader of the Opposition had to run out to a car park to hold this media conference on the weekend. Just before question time I went to the website of the Leader of the Opposition.

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