Wayne Swan (Lilley, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is directed to the Treasurer. I refer to the 2005 dinner at the Waters Edge restaurant attended by the Treasurer, his press secretary and three senior journalists. I also refer to the notes of the Treasurer’s comments, taken by a journalist at that dinner and quoted on The 7.30 Report last night, that (1) he had set a mid-term deadline for the Prime Minister to hand over the leadership, (2) he was prepared to go to the backbench, (3) he would carp at Howard’s leadership from the backbench and destroy it until he won the leadership, and (4) ‘Howard cannot win, but I can.’

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