Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

And then remember when the opposition leader supported that disgraceful, xenophobic campaign by the CFMEU against the China free trade agreement, insulting China and opposing jobs for Australians just to curry favour with union thugs. This reckless opposition leader talks of the importance of the US alliance and then describes the incoming president as 'barking mad' just so he can curry favour with the Greens.

Mark Latham—remember him? The man Labor wanted as Prime Minister put it well when he said that the opposition leader was:

… an opportunist, someone with a shameless record of using people and political issues to satisfy his personal ambitions.

I could not put it any better.

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