Was the Deputy Prime Minister of Australia drunk on the floor of Parliament the other day?

Hansard doesn’t capture the smirk on the his face as he swayed at the dispatch box, nor the crimson stylings of his skin tone. But the official transcript of what he said––the final paragraph of it, before the leader of the Opposition rose on a point of order––makes it hard to imagine that something wasn’t wrong:

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