George Brandis Doorstop - Kevin Rudd and Julia Gillard
05/08/10
E&OE
BRANDIS:
Our candidate for the seat of Brisbane Teresa Gambaro on my right to respond on behalf of the Coalition’s campaign here in Queensland to the statements reported in this morning’s Courier Mail that Ms Gillard is now sorry that she stabbed Kevin Rudd in the back. Now all the crocodile tears in the world will not wash away the fact that Queensland’s first elected Prime Minister in 100 years was stabbed in the back and that it was Julia Gillard who stabbed him, Julia Gillard in cahoots with the faceless men who control the Australian Labor Party who stabbed him.
It seems that each day as the wheels fall off the Labor Party’s campaign, Julia Gillard tries to reinvent herself as a new person.
On Monday we learnt that she was going to be the real Julia. Today, we learn she’s going to be the sorrowful Julia. In fact, she’s the same person at the head of the same Government. Here in Queensland people can see through this spin.
They can see through these scripted lines and they know that this latest statement by Ms Gillard is just another ploy. It’s just another ploy to overcome the fact that Julia Gillard was complicit with faceless men in the trade union movement in tearing down Queensland’s first elected Labor Prime Minister in a century.
Every (inaudible) that Julia Gillard makes is yet another spin doctored line, yet another ploy. It’s no more genuine, it’s no more sincere than her promises that she would never, ever, ever try to take Kevin Rudd’s job; her promise that there was more chance of her being full forward for the Western Bulldogs than taking Kevin Rudd’s job; her promise that there was more chance of her getting on a space rocket to Mars than taking Kevin Rudd’s job. Those statements were not sincere when they were made and this statement is no sincere. If Julia Gillard is so sorry about having stabbed Kevin Rudd in the back she shouldn’t have stabbed him in the back in the first place.
JOURNALIST:
George, she’s damned if she does and damned if she doesn’t here isn’t she?
BRANDIS:
Well Laura, if she’s so sorry about what happened to Kevin Rudd she shouldn’t have stabbed him in the back in the first place. It’s like a murderer saying I’m so sorry for my victim.
JOURNALIST:
Do you think she was told to sorry because the wheels are falling off Labor’s campaign?
BRANDIS:
She was told to say this by the same faceless spin doctors who run the Labor Party campaign.
JOURNALIST:
Kevin Rudd says it’s been difficult but he’s looking forward, the main game is to win the election, that he doesn’t want the focus on him, so…
BRANDIS:
If Mr Rudd didn’t want the focus to be on him he’s got a very strange way of showing it. Thank you.