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

It has everything to do with the question. So there was a situation where the Leader of the Opposition was asked:

that is, withdraw the troops—

in less than a month, Mr Beazley?

Three minutes later and he says:

You don’t put timetables on those things ...

The journalist went on to say:

You said less than a month or two, didn’t you?

It is incredulous. The Leader of the Opposition said:

... It’s strange that you’d want to nit-pick through this, quite frankly.

That says it all. The Leader of the Opposition—

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