Andrew Nikolic (Bass, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Most egregiously. Mr Speaker, during question time the member for Watson, at the urging of the opposition leader, requested that I withdraw a reference about a speech given by the opposition leader in Adelaide last September. At your request I withdrew, to assist the House. But the reference to the opposition leader's speech as 'stinking of racist and protectionist rhetoric' was not my comment; it was in The Australian newspaper on 11 September 2014.

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