Bill Heffernan
Bill Heffernan, a close friend of Prime Minister John Howard, described Julia Gillard, the deputy leader of the opposition centre-left Labour Party, as ‘deliberately barren’. He was quoted saying, ‘If you’re a leader, you’ve got to understand your...
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