The outcome has deeply angered the Right faction, with one minister conceding a leadership switch to Kevin Rudd or Stephen Smith may prove the only circuit breaker.
Yesterday the former Labor leader and Gillard loyalist Simon Crean warned colleagues their behaviour was disgraceful.
Mr Crean told The Sunday Telegraph: “It’s just outrageous that cabinet leaks. People ought to understand the damage this can cause for government.”
Mr Rudd, who refused to rule out a challenge yesterday, said: “One of the first principles of cabinet government is that we maintain those discussions among us.”
A government source canvassed calling in federal police to investigate the leaks, before conceding Ms Gillard would be ridiculed for “calling in the cops on her own cabinet”.
“But what’s she going to do? She’ going to read the riot act on Monday night.”
- PM Julia Gillard to read riot act to MPs over asylum seekers debate leak, PerthNow.com.au, October 15, 2011.
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