Simon Crean
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"Simon Findlay Crean" is an Australian politician and trade unionist. He was leader of the Australian Labor Party and Federal List of Australian Leaders of the Opposition/Leader of the Opposition from November 2001 to December 2003. He was President of the Australian Council of Trade Unions from 1985 to 1990. He served as the Member for Division of Hotham/Hotham in the Australian Parliament from 1990 to 2013, and held numerous cabinet portfolios, most recently as Minister for the Arts and Minister for Regional Australia, Regional Development and Local Government in 2013. Crean retired from politics at the Australian federal election, 2013.

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The prime minister has to make an apology because this attack on Justice Kirby was done with the knowledge of the prime minister.

He then went on and fueled the issue in the House of Representatives based on information Heffernan had written to the prime minister about but which he hadn't even alleged in the Senate.

Loyalty and respect for contribution do matter. They are principles I seek to uphold.

I think that the real issue is not just what they did then, but who else has been spied on and what does John Howard know about these circumstances.

Your presence here today reminds us that the partnership between our two great nations is broad -- it's deep, it's many sided, it's long-standing and, in its fundamentals, it is bipartisan.