Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is addressed to the Prime Minister. I refer to yesterday’s extraordinary refusal by the Prime Minister to stand up confidently in this House and confirm whether or not he or any of his staff were responsible for the false and damaging leak about his 10 October conversation with the US President. I ask further: did the Prime Minister or anyone from his office brief the Australian that the Prime Minister had told the President:

… that he had heard “through back channels” that the Chinese believed the economic collapse underscored the inherent failures of capitalism and the benefits of a planned economy.

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