Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Well, if the Leader of the Opposition and the tactics committee—which we know from the intervention yesterday from the Manager of Opposition Business in the House contains 20 or more tactics and is growing each day—had at least formed a subcommittee to examine what the policies of the previous government were in the making of these payments, perhaps they would not have asked this question in the first place. I say to the Leader of the Opposition: once you have embarked upon a question time strategy like this, when you know that you have run into a fundamental contradiction, quit while you—

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