Alexander Downer (Mayo, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

The Leader of the Opposition professes to be some kind of strategic genius. He is always running around saying, ‘I know all about the civil war and General McClelland.’ He is his great hero from the civil war. He says that he knows all about the First World War, the Battle of the Somme, Fromelle, the Second World War and Tobruk. He knows all about this sort of thing; or so he claims in any case. But what we know about the Leader of the Opposition is that he cannot carry a serious argument, and cannot carry an argument with conviction and passion, from dawn till dusk. He certainly has not been able to on the issue of Iraq.

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