Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

This matter has been well and truly canvassed in this House over the last few days. But for the benefit of members opposite, who do not appear to have anything better to pursue, let me remind them that the senior official of the Attorney-General's Department gave testimony to Senate estimates early the following week. It was realised that there was a problem with that testimony. There was a thorough review undertaken by the Attorney-General's Department to ascertain what had actually happened in respect of various letters. Subsequently, the results of that review on the Thursday became known to us.

The Attorney and the foreign minister corrected the record at the first available opportunity. Let me go into some—

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