The former defence minister turned lobbyist was at his entertaining best at a Macquarie Street drinks for Labor members.
Liberal powerbroker“There’s nothing wrong with being nice to people because if you’re nice to people on the way up, I can assure you that you see them all on the way down,” Pyne advised the crowd.
which he said had sold 22,000 copies, a figure he humbly described as “eye-wateringly high” by Australian non-fiction standards.Swanson followed Pyne’s speech by hopping on the milk crate and praising him as “one of those rare creatures that is actually able to bring people together”.
“I was not there to endorse any particular party’s views. I was asked to speak about Australia’s policies on migration, from the Howard, Rudd/ Gillard and Abbott governments which continue today under the federal Labor government.” ““I also spoke at another event as a former NSW trade minister about relations between Australia and China. It is entirely reasonable for an MP from NSW to share information about Australian government policies, which is what I did.”
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