Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

I want to go on to one other thing. Running out of ammunition in relation to the censure, the Leader of the Opposition then engaged in a general slur on the government, on the Prime Minister in particular. I want to make this point. When you attack somebody else’s character in the way that the Leader of the Opposition did, and he attacked it in relation to ‘children overboard’, in relation to the Iraq war and in relation to AWB—so when you want to get up in here and make allegations like that—the public and the parliament are entitled to examine your character. It is a basic principle.

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