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

It is one hour and 16 minutes into question time and not a single question from those opposite on action on climate change—not a single question on the topic which dominated the joint party room this morning amid such a celebration of party unity—or cross-party unity, as I have heard it described. What the Australian nation saw today was the Leader of the Opposition rolled in his own joint party room. What we saw today was, once again—as on Work Choices, so today on climate change—the Leader of the Opposition rolled by the ideological hard right-wing of his own party and the National Party. The Leader of the Opposition came to the leadership of the Liberal Party rolling his predecessor—

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