Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to media reports that Kevin Harkins, the Tasmanian unionist who stood down as the Labor candidate in 2007 following community concern about illegal activity, has kept his political dream alive since then and is set to gain a safe seat on the Labor Senate ticket. Given that, as opposition leader, your office negotiated Mr Harkins’s resignation, is your office now acting to guarantee Mr Harkins a career return?

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

Given Mr Harkins’s career as a well-known pugilist, I thought his career would lie in the party opposite rather than in our party, given what has happened in the joint party room today. Can I just say to those opposite—

Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

He’s a union crook; he’s better off on your side!

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

Can I just say to those opposite that, as far as Mr Harkins is concerned, from my point of view there are two chances of him entering the Senate on our part: Buckley’s and none.