Lindsay Tanner (Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Finance and Deregulation) Share this | Hansard source

As I was saying, many years ago an old colleague gave me some words of advice: when you throw a stone into a pack of dogs, the one that yelps is the one that got hit. How true that was. There is a simple question here for the Leader of the Opposition that has to be addressed. That is: is he going to repudiate the unprincipled, vicious attacks on the Secretary of the Treasury and the Treasury and their integrity by the member for Goldstein? By his persistent refusal to intervene to repudiate these attacks he is embracing them. By his persistent refusal to provide substantiation and evidence of these claims he is showing his true colours. He has all the integrity, courage and ethics of Arthur Daley. That is what the Leader of the Opposition is demonstrating here. He bought his preselection; he wriggled out of responsibility for HIH. He has all the ethics of Arthur Daley.

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