‘Hallucinating': Opposition slams Labor over ‘inventing' US beef ban talks
'Australians rely on the government to confidently and competently advocate for our national interest,' Ms Ley said during Question Time on Monday.
'Yesterday, the trade minister seemed to be hallucinating on national TV when he invented a conversation between the US President and the prime minister about beef.
'How can Labor be trusted to secure tariff exemptions when the trade minister confuses a public statement from the president with a leader-to-leader phone call that never happened?'
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