In his first address on Thursday in Parliament, he called on MPs to be a “little kinder and gentler” with each other. “Political life is a very hard life, a very hard life indeed,” he told Parliament. “let us all remember particularly on days like this that in this Parliament, and in this place, we are all human beings, we all have emotions, so let us try — just try — to be a little kinder and gentler with each other in the further deliberations of this Parliament,” he said apparently referring to bickering within his party that led to his showdown with Gillard.
