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He said he didn’t mean to claim Ms Kitching,from Labor’s right-wing,had more in common with his side of the chamber,however,she had friends across the political spectrum. “In an instant we knew what we had lost,” Mr Morrison said.
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese described Ms Kitching as a woman who stood her ground and fought for her beliefs,adding she “didn’t waste a second” of her political career while serving in the Senate.
“Politics can be difficult,there’s so much at stake,passions are high,and you don’t always get an agreement as to which is the best course of action,” he said.
Ms Kitching’s death prompted allegations she had been bullied and alienated from within the Labor Party,as well as facing a factional battle to retain her Senate position.
Labor frontbencher and close friend of Kimberley Kitching,Bill Shorten,openly mused in the day after her death whether she would have been better off if she had never gone into politics.
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“I want to make clear now that I don’t agree with what I’ve said. I’ve changed my view completely upon reflection,” he said in Parliament on Tuesday.
“I say to Kimberley,if she can hear us in some fashion:you lived every unforgiving minute with 60 seconds of distance running. Courage with no malice,courage with no jealousy,courage with no bitterness at all.”
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