Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Deputy Speaker, I withdraw, with due deference, the insult, and I apologise. I apologise deeply.

The socialists—and I hope that's not the insult!—on 22 June said that they believed 'a quarter of the Victorian members are there by reason of branch stacking'. Well, what an indictment! So if you get a proper ICAC, you know who you're going to get rid of? The whole of the Australian Labor Party!

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