Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to comments he made on 2 October last year that he had asked Labor’s national secretary to conduct an internal investigation into the Transport Workers Union slush fund, allegedly used to illegally support Labor candidates. I also refer the Prime Minister to his comments on 8 October that the investigation was still underway and that the national secretary would make a statement about the findings. Prime Minister, has the Labor Party national secretary made any such statement? Can the Prime Minister guarantee that no Transport Workers Union slush fund money was used to support Labor candidates at the last federal election, including the candidates featured, signing a pledge to that union, in the TWU election brochure I have here—namely, the members for Charlton, Robertson, Dobell and Lindsay?

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