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

In answering the Deputy Leader of the Opposition's question I do note that a member of her Liberal team has said to Michelle Grattan:

We've drifted into the more personal politics side of things rather than dealing with the policy and allowing the muck to slide.

Honourable members interjecting—

Never a truer word spoken, by a Liberal dismayed by the way in which the Liberal Party has run out of puff on its smear campaigns and has descended into this muckraking.

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