Wilson Tuckey, the Liberal member for O’Connor in Western Australia, has produced a television advertisement for the 2010 election.
Tuckey, 75, was first elected to the House of Representatives in 1980.
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This is Treasurer Peter Costello’s press conference, in Canberra, today.
Costello took questions on the June quarter National Accounts figures released today.
He also answered questions on Iraq, Wilson Tuckey, ethanol and the jailing of Pauline Hanson.
In May 1989, a well-planned coup toppled John Howard and re-installed Andrew Peacock as leader of the Liberal Party.
The week after the leadership change, the main organisers of the challenge appeared on the ABC’s Four Corners program to explain and gloat about how they overthrew Howard.
John Moore and Wilson Tuckey were the main spokesmen for the plotters.
An exchange between former Prime Minister Paul Keating and the Liberal member for O’Connor, Wilson Tuckey, on February 18, 1986, still ranks as one of the more vicious encounters in the House of Representatives.
The House was debating a Matter of Public Importance on Fuel Prices and Taxation. John Howard, then Leader of the Opposition, had spoken first. He was followed by the then Treasurer, Paul Keating. Hansard records events as follows: