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

No. I am asked by the member for Hotham which one, and I can tell him the answer to the question. The member for Wentworth does not make an appearance in this adjournment address.

I understand that the member for Higgins is engaging in a bit of training, and that is because I have seen the advertisement for the job he wants to apply for. There we have it, appearing in the pages of the newspaper. You might not have seen that, Prime Minister, but it says preselections are open, including for the member for Higgins’s seat. What I am not sure about is if there is any truth in the rumour that in the next editions of the newspapers we will see an advertisement ‘Position vacant: Leader of the Opposition’, because that is the one he really wants to apply for.

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