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

I know you’ll tell me! You’re my friend; I know that. You will tell me, and I will tell Mr Rudd immediately you tell me! We know it will be 13 October, because, as soon as APEC is finished, that will be a launching pad for you. I can assure you that your friends up here who look down on us every day will not allow you to go any longer than 20 or 27 October. You know that in your heart; that’s the truth! I think you would do us all a great service to put us out of our misery—and tell Wilson Tuckey too when the federal election will be held. It seems obvious to me that you will not call it earlier; you will call it for 13 October. Are you ruling it out? Through you, Mr Speaker, I ask the Prime Minister: are you ruling out 13 October? Because, if it is not 13 October, it will be 20 October or 27 October.

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