Harry Jenkins (Scullin, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Early in his contribution, the member for Blaxland used the expression ‘the corruption of the government’. The chair has taken the not overly narrow—and hopefully not overly generous—view that it was not the intention of the member for Blaxland to imply dishonest, illegal behaviour but rather one of the other definitions of the expression that could be purloined from a dictionary.

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