Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure and Transport) Share this | Hansard source

In today's edition of The Australian an opinion piece by Troy Bramston contains a number of falsehoods, assertions and fictions. Only one of the assertions is backed up by a quote with an attribution, which it is now drawn to my attention is from Bob Carr's recent book. The book says that Bob Carr had received a telephone call from New South Wales Labor's secretary, who said:

“he had just taken calls from (Chris) Bowen and Albanese complaining that I had undermined their pro-Rudd campaign”.

As now Senator Sam Dastyari has confirmed to the Senate, this is not correct. As Senator Dastyari also confirmed, my only comments to him at the time were that people should shut up about the leadership and get on with the business of governing.

As for the other assertions, they are absurd, wrong, without any attribution, unprofessional and contradicted by a cursory examination of the facts and recent history. The fact is that I am working hard each and every day to hold this government to account. That is my only focus.

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