before you get to excited over garrett

"it was a light hearted throw away line"

the view of the 3rd person in the conversation, Richard Wilkins

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,22691447-2,00.html

And he has been backed by Mr Wilkins, who says he thought Mr Garrett was joking.

"We had a little chat about how it was all going and Pricey had a cheeky little question about `me-too' policies which had got a bit of coverage in the papers today," Mr Wilkins said to Macquarie Radio in Sydney.

"And Peter had a bit of a light-hearted response which I took as very much a throwaway line, I have to say ... my take on it was that it was very much a light-hearted throwaway line."