Kevin Rudd (Griffith, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

To state again clearly, no one in my office had any role in relation to initiating, approving, writing, instructing, participating in or disseminating any of the statutory declarations which are relevant to this matter. On the question of telephone contact between my office and the member for Robertson, it is normal that there be contact between the leader’s office and government members. That is, of itself, unremarkable. In relation to the press statement which, I think, is the subject of multiple questions—many of them wrongly based—on the part of the member for Curtin, my office advised me that they requested the member for Robertson to send to the office of the Prime Minister a copy of that statement, and I understand that that was done.

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