Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Oh? You do have great interest, do you? I would have thought that was a smear, was it not? Perhaps you could go and talk to people about it. But we find out, do we not, on the Channel 7 news today—and Channel 7 would know about this—that Smith, who I believe to be Stephen Smith, was out there quoted today, according to the news report, saying:

There was no need to dig dirt. Kevin Rudd revealed he had a transplant three and a half years ago on Seven Sunrise.

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