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

The member for Griffith obviously is talking, as usual, more than he is listening, because I was just quoting from the Jull report. The quote—I repeat, signed off by the Leader of the Opposition—is this:

… the presentation by the Australian government was more moderate and more measured than that of either of its alliance partners.

That was the view of the Leader of the Opposition then. Today he says we lied, but he did not say that then. Today he has changed his mind. Back in those days he used to say Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.

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