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

What we are seeing today—and I think this question has absolutely crystallised it—is that there the opposition have been over several days trying to raise fear in the community. They have gone on and on and on, and now, of course, their source for questions in question time in the Australian parliament is a newspaper clipping from an anonymous source. They have no ability to check the veracity of what is claimed. Presumably the next question will come from trawling the outer reaches of the internet and finding what kooks and cranks on the outer reaches of the internet have got to say. They will rush in here and present that as something worth hearing about on national security. Doesn't that just go to the difference between being a responsible government and being an opposition driven by slogan and spin.

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