Alan Tudge (Aston, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I find it extraordinary that the Leader of the Opposition would bring this MPI to this parliament on the very day that he has had to front up to the Australian people and say that he lied to Neil Mitchell, that he lied to Ben Fordham and, through them, that he lied to the Australian people about the political assassination of Julia Gillard, something that we always knew he was up to his neck with. Today he has come clean. Today, two years after the date, he has fessed up that he was the key part of the bringing down of Julia Gillard as Prime Minister just as he was a few years earlier he key part of the bringing down of Kevin Rudd as Prime Minister. On this very day when he self-confessed he lied to the Australian people on one of the most brutal things that has occurred in Australian political history, he brings to this parliament a motion condemning us for our supposed broken promises?

I find it absolutely extraordinary, Mr Deputy Streaker—

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