John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

and the next minute they have every state Labor premier running around. The precise circumstances of that particular gentleman’s arrival are a matter on which I would have to get advice. The Leader of the Opposition credits me with supernatural powers. I have to disappoint him and say I am not possessed of them. I do have to act on advice. I will get advice and I will write him a letter advising him. In the course of writing him that letter I will also enclose a copy of some of the correspondence that the minister for immigration has received from the state Labor ministers.

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