Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Thanks very much, Mr Speaker. I will sum up, because it is interesting that what was just described in that point of order as a grubby smear is something that moments ago the Leader of the Opposition said he was not a bit ashamed of. And there is a reason for that. Last night on the 7.30 Report, he said he had never accused the Prime Minister of corruption, and yet last Friday he said:

The Prime Minister and the Treasurer have used their offices and taxpayers’ resources to seek advantage for one of their mates …

The reason he does not believe that that is corruption is that he actually did it, and he did it with real public money, turning $2 million into $10 million.

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