Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

It will take finer minds than mine to work out whether that is the worst performance the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has ever had, or whether the Keating quote was the worst performance the Deputy Leader of the Opposition has ever had. I will leave it to finer minds than mine to try and work out which was the silliest question. Once again, it may be a heroic assumption in relation to members of the opposition, but I am assuming that in one of these public policy debates of our time—namely, how the world deals with unauthorised people movement—people in the opposition will be interested in the facts. I am constantly being proved wrong, question by question, interjection by interjection—

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