Isaacs federal MP Mark Dreyfus brushed off strong criticism for his comments on the opposition’s tactics during the asylum-seeker debate last week.
Mr Dreyfus infuriated opponents when he accused Opposition Leader Tony Abbott of seeing “political advantage in people dying”.
Coalition MPs responded that the government’s asylum seeker policy was to blame, not the opposition’s.
Flinders MP Greg Hunt said it was one of the most offensive statements made in the Parliament in 100 years.
An unapologetic Mr Dreyfus retorted: “At a time when the nation is looking to its Parliament for leadership, for bipartisanship and compromise, all the Coalition offers is a resounding ‘no’.” .
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