Malcolm Turnbull lashes out at Kevin Rudd over 'biggest policy failure in the history of the Commonwealth'

By Mark Kenny
Updated September 22 2016 - 8:23pm, first published 8:06pm
Malcolm Turnbull with then prime minister Kevin Rudd in March 2010. Photo: Glen McCurtayne
Malcolm Turnbull with then prime minister Kevin Rudd in March 2010. Photo: Glen McCurtayne
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop listen during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly.  Photo: Julie Jacobson
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Foreign Minister Julie Bishop listen during the 71st session of the United Nations General Assembly. Photo: Julie Jacobson
Kevin Rudd and UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon at UN headquarters in New York last month. Photo: Trevor Collens
Kevin Rudd and UN secretary-general Ban Ki Moon at UN headquarters in New York last month. Photo: Trevor Collens

New York: Malcolm Turnbull has described Labor's botched management of the people smuggling challenge under Kevin Rudd's leadership as his "legacy of shame" and the worst policy failure in the country's history.

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