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

Thank you, Madam Speaker. As I was saying, when will the Deputy Leader of the Opposition apologise to the press gallery for having misled them yesterday about her degree of contact with Mr Blewitt, and when will the Leader of the Opposition, who is responsible for this campaign of sleaze and a smear, acknowledge it for exactly what it has been? Today we have been treated to the absurdity of the Leader of the Opposition, who has spent days hiding behind his deputy, running away from her. She was instructed not to go to his book launch, his big so-called positive announcement; running away from her—

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