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15 May 05:50am

Filed under: Anthony Albanese, Hung Parliament, Julia Gillard, Labor Party, Parliament, Parliamentary Code Of Conduct

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Does Julia Gillard think the Australian people have the memory of a goldfish?

In the alternative Gillard reality we are apparently swimming about taking a fresh look at her Government with each lap of the bowl, oblivious to what we saw yesterday or the day before.

That is the only possible explanation for the bald-faced hypocrisy with which she is now championing a “Parliamentary Code of Conduct”.

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gregcullen_2000@yahoo.com says:

12:19pm | 21/05/12

Acotrel it was the independants that won the election for labor and many of them didn’t decide until the votes were counted you can’t trust them either Read more »
marley says:

01:46pm | 16/05/12

@DJ - well, you could be right on the Senate, in which case I’d say, yes, the good Senator should have been cross-benched for the duration (as I recall, it was a relatively short time between charges and sentencing). But your other point, I disagree with entirely. If there’s a… Read more »

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