In 1995, I was there when, one question time, John Howard’s reinvigorated opposition so niggled prime minister Paul Keating that the so-called master of the parliamentary stage shut proceedings down and exited the House of Representatives chamber in a petulant huff. It was a moment, above any others, that showed Howard had captured the ascendancy from Keating, and Coalition victory at the polls was just a matter of time.
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