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

The Prime Minister would be John Howard then. The point is that he would ring him up and ask him what to do about good security policy or he would ring up the member for Wentworth and ask him what to do about environment policy. The fact is that, if the Leader of the Opposition wins the election, we will of course be gone and he will have no-one left to copy. He will be on his own, and the only people he will be able to go to will be the ACTU. It is a pathetic thing that the Leader of the Opposition in this country has no ideas or policies but instead just a series of stunts.

We had the T-shirt competition this week, the Kevin07, cribbed almost literally from the Obama ‘08 website, as the Herald Sun pointed out, under the headline: ‘Copycat Kevin takes his cue from the US’. At least there is somebody making policy for the Leader of the Opposition at the moment, and that is the government. God forbid that we would lose the election and he would have no-one to guide him.

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