Peter McGauran (Gippsland, National Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

The member for Corio is a champion for agricultural issues. He is not always entirely effective but you would not know that from listening to the Leader of the Opposition. He has been asked countless times to indicate some degree of support for the position of the member for Corio. He has never given a straight answer. He will never mention him by name. In case the Leader of the Opposition was not listening to AM this morning, I will remind him of the comments of the member for Corio, who said:

Well I think the leader would appreciate more than anybody else that if you don’t give loyalty you don’t get it. And at the end of the day, it might not be me; it might be the leader.

Those words were from the member for Corio, in conjunction with the member for Batman, the member for Hotham and no doubt the member for Maribyrnong.

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