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

So before anybody in the opposition tries to get out and peddle this misrepresentation that somehow the Westminster tradition requires someone from the same side as the government to sit in the Speaker's chair is complete nonsense and another part of the fabric of deceit that they are out there in the Australian community with.

More worrying in many ways than the relentless spin and bluster and abuse of the Leader of the Opposition of his bizarre conspiracy theories, what is more concerning than that is his lack of ideas for this nation's future.

Mr Simpkins interjecting—

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