“I'm a media tart. You tell me one politician that's not a media tart, tell me one that's not.”

— Peter Beattie

As quoted in "Beattie an unashamed 'media tart'" in AM Archive (11 May 2000) http://www.abc.net.au/am/stories/s125625.htm

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