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

and those opposite scoff at that possibility. The Leader of the Opposition undertook a political campaign within the Liberal Party to roll his predecessor with one of his causes being he would be strong on climate change. He accused his predecessor of being weak on climate change. That was the political attack. What happened today was that the Leader of the Opposition was rolled in the Liberal Party party room, rolled in the joint party room, by the climate change sceptics—the self-proclaimed climate change champion rolled by the climate change sceptics. That is what happened on the part of those opposite.

Let us go to what currently constitutes the position of those opposite, given how intimidated the current leader of the Liberal Party is by the person who seeks to replace him as the leader of the Liberal Party—that is, the member for Higgins. Remember in the joint party room the member for Higgins—

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