Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the foreign minister. Can the foreign minister please advise they House why in her previous answer she did not refer to the Deputy Prime Minister describing Donald Trump's political positions as cruel and nasty and did not refer to the Leader of the House describing the advent of the Trump campaign as terrifying. Can she explain why she did not refer to the Minister for the Environment describing him as a 'dropkick' or the former Prime Minister John Howard saying he was too unstable to hold that high office, or refer to herself saying he did not see the US as having a global leadership role?

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