Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Education, Apprenticeships and Training) Share this | Hansard source

I will. He offered no explanation to the purchase of luxury goods for himself or the use of several hundred thousand dollars of union money for his election campaign. In fact, he states that the FWA failed to give credence to the fact that cash expenditure was properly documented and accounted for. This is entirely at odds with FWA findings 26 to 28 on page 289 and the extensive evidence cited for those findings.

In summary, the member's version of events (a) is not supported by the evidence of a single witness (b) is explicitly contradicted by one person, Mr Bolano, whom he named (c) is not supported by a single piece of documentary—

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