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

At the outset I say to the Leader of the Opposition that that was not quite as bad as his AM performance but it went very close. Let me say to the House very directly why there is no case to suspend standing orders to discuss this issue. The reason there is no case to suspend standing orders to discuss this issue is that the two most important public policy issues before this parliament today are, firstly, the Leader of the Opposition’s inability to understand the basic principles of his own economic attack on the government—

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