Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

I repeat: this is a question to the Prime Minister, not the Deputy Prime Minister. It refers to matters which pertain directly to his government. I am asking him whether or not he can confirm this statement by the member for Blair about those matters pertaining to his government and its unity. I quote: ‘And when the person who moves the motion on the Liberal side is the Prime Minister’s representative on the state executive, and when the president of the party is appointed with the Prime Minister’s imprimatur, I think people who are sitting around that table are entitled to expect that those moves have been done with his full knowledge and concurrence.’ Prime Minister, were you part of this plot to destroy the National Party and is that the reason you kept the Deputy Prime Minister in the dark?

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