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

I am very happy to be relevant. The question necessarily raises issues about intelligence, budget and staff. It necessarily raises that and I am going directly to that, but I am using a figure I know the Leader of the Opposition is familiar with because he referred to these figures in a media report in March this year where he said, 'We don't need the extra 20,000 Commonwealth public sector employees revealed in these budget papers'. The Leader of the Opposition ought to acknowledge that those figures show 7,500 extra defence military personnel—

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