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

I remind the Leader of the Opposition that this government has brought to the parliament proposals to help us deal with the circumstances of asylum seekers and people who arrive by boat, and the Leader of the Opposition in his reckless negativity has not supported those proposals. The Leader of the Opposition cannot come into this place and mount this kind of criticism when he has refused to accept the advice of the former Chief of the Defence Force, Angus Houston, he has refused to accept the advice of refugee expert Paris Aristotle, he has refused—

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