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

I am referring to our relationship with Indonesia, and just making the point that once again the opposition is getting itself in a mess—the same kind of mess it got into when the Leader of the Opposition, despite his statement today, criticised me for going to New York to lobby for our Security Council bid, saying instead I should have gone to Jakarta, not realising that in New York was President Yudhoyono as well.

But anyway, in all this confusion about Indonesia on the opposition side, let me be very clear to the Leader of the National Party: because we work on this relationship every day, because we have had exchanges numbering almost 130, because there have been comprehensive discussions between me and the president, and between ministers and their counterparts—

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