John Murphy (Lowe, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I wish to ask you a question about a report and an associated cartoon entitled ‘Farmer Bill has a sharp advantage’ which appeared on page 40, in the Rear Window segment, of today’s Australian Financial Review. Inter alia, Rear Window reports:

We spotted Farmer Bill around the corridors of power in Canberra yesterday, sporting a knife neatly tucked inside a leather pouch.

The senator from Junee, who does his fair share of backroom haggling, told us it’s always handy to have a knife at your disposal.

We couldn’t argue with this, but wondered how he got it past security?

Not a problem it seems. Never stuck for words—

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