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

Yet again, members opposite are seeking to verbal the royal commissioner. In asking that question, the member made a statement about the royal commissioner's statement, which is simply false. In asking that question, he made a statement which is simply false. For the benefit of the member, who may well have just been handed a question that had been drafted by someone else, let me read from the transcript of Commissioner Dyson Heydon's statement earlier today:

The email of the 10th of April—

that is to say, 10 April 2014, the original email—

did not state and I did not understand from it that the Sir Garfield Address was in any sense a fundraiser for the Liberal Party. Mr Swan interjecting—

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