Senate debates
Monday, 12 September 2011
Matters of Public Importance
Asylum Seekers
4:06 pm
Helen Polley (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source
We did. We are sitting on this side of the chamber because the Prime Minister of this country negotiated the outcome that put us on the government benches. She was unlike Mr Abbott, who was quite prepared to throw billions of dollars at anybody who was prepared to support Abbott in government. That is the difference with those on the opposite side.
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