John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

they would not be adopting the policy they have. The last thing I want to say is this: I saw in a newspaper this morning from a very respected columnist a suggestion that the Leader of the Opposition was going to do a Blair at the ALP national conference. Can I say to the Leader of the Opposition that the defining moment in the march of Tony Blair to respectability as leader of the British Labour Party was when he told the Trade Union Congress in that country that, if he won office, he would retain the industrial relations reforms of the Thatcher government.

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