Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I can understand the catcalls to cover their embarrassment—the Leader of the Opposition: repudiated; the member for Higgins, the architect of Work Choices: seeking to drive the embrace of Work Choices even further; the Liberal Party gathered to kill Work Choices and they could not bring themselves to do it. Before today we knew that the Liberal Party is and always will be the party of Work Choices. After today we know that that is true and we also know that they are a hopeless rabble and joke, unable to keep the Leader of the Opposition’s commitment to the Australian people that Work Choices is dead.

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