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

Given the Manager of Opposition Business may have misheard, but he certainly misquoted, I was not referring to a newspaper yesterday; I was referring to the West Australian newspaper from several weeks ago.

I am amazed to get this question from the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, who is unable to remember who she spoke to a week ago—and she is asking me to deal with events of 20 years ago! She is unable to tell who she has got on the phone but here she is, day after day, pretending that she is interested in the answer to questions about 20 years ago. For the Deputy Leader of the Opposition, this throwing of mud really turned into an embarrassment yesterday. She is humiliated and today was pulled by the opposition—

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