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

I always welcome questions from the member for Curtin. She would always, I would hope, remember, in those deep, dark days in the past when she was a cabinet minister, that there is such a thing as how cabinet committees operate. Ours operate on the same grounds of confidentiality as theirs, with one exception: Minister Turnbull is not a minister of our cabinet, so it does not leak on a regular basis as theirs did. We all know the practice in times past: out the door and constant background briefings with the chaps upstairs about what was going on in the cabinet. Ours does not operate that way; it operates under standard cabinet procedures. If the Leader of the Opposition wants to move his censure motion, he should get on with it and defend his accusation yesterday.

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