Arch Bevis (Brisbane, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

I was going to come to that but, now that you have brought it up, let me come to it straightaway. Let me give you a bit of free advice: when you want to raise those sorts of arguments, it is good to do a bit of groundwork. Now you may have floated position by virtue of the leadership change rather than other characteristics. I would not regard your six weeks in the job as the highlight of a parliamentary career. But as it happens, your predecessor did not ask any questions either. So the opposition, who want to pursue this matter as an issue of great concern, do so from a very false platform.

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