Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

On the substance of the matter, I refer again to the statement I made before about the public statements by the White House, the US ambassador and me on this. In furthering the question, the member for Wentworth said that this goes to our relationship with the United States. Calling the President-elect of the United States an ‘agent of al-Qaeda’—which is what the Liberals did last year—I think is of some consequence to that relationship.

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