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

Professor McMillan was asked by Senator Vanstone, the woman whose reputation and performance you have tried to traduce—that is what you have tried to do—and he makes the cardinal central point:

There was no evidence in any of the cases that I’ve examined of any political pressure that led to deficient decisions.

In other words, on the whole argument the Leader of the Opposition and others have been running these past days, and that is that it was the rotten political policy of the government that produced all of these things, he said: not right.

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