Wilson Tuckey - Political Career

Political Career

In 1989 a group of Liberal MP's including Tuckey ploted to depose John Howard as Liberal Party leader and replace him with Andrew Peacock. After the success of the plsn, Tuckey boasted about it in a Four Corners interivew regardign Howard's dumping, This ended up privately infuriating Howard.

Tuckey addressed an AIDS conference and opened by saying "you don't catch AIDS, you let somebody give it to you".

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