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

He is very quiet at this moment. Let’s see if we can warm him up. He has got seven questions; he needs to ask another three about this issue before he can move to his censure. Let me give him a word of warning: you normally start off soft and come home strong, but you have started off a bit strong and you are coming home soft. So let me see if I can warm him up. I will warm him up by tabling the Australian of 20 November 2000, which carried an article headlined ‘I paid poll rival, says Labor MP’. The article states:

Labor frontbencher and Queensland power broker, Wayne Swan, has admitted—

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