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

We are not only at the bottom of the barrel now; we are through the bottom of the barrel and we are tunnelling underneath. I refer the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to my statements about this matter on the public record. I refer the Deputy Leader of the Opposition—

Ms Julie Bishop interjecting—

If she wants to stop yelling and carrying on—we know she is embarrassed; no amount of screaming is going to fix that. I refer the Deputy Leader of the Opposition to the statement of Slater and Gordon about the circumstances of my employment with the firm. These things have been on the public record for some time now. This is truly pathetic and embarrassing to watch—a humiliation for the Deputy Leader of the Opposition. There was a series of acts of dishonesty outside the parliament yesterday, seeking to mislead the press gallery. And every smear, every untrue word is endorsed by the Leader of the Opposition, because that is who he is—a man without a plan for the nation's future; a man with only negativity and smear. And what he really fears is: he is a man whose political strategy has come to an end.

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