Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

There he is: a senator paid well over twice average weekly earnings, paid money that is massive by the standards of most Australians, and because he is a senator he believes he has the right—and he has that Labor culture, that Sussex Street culture that gives him that right—to ring up a business with a vested interest in changing Australia's policy and ask them for money. That is what he did. He asked them for money to pay his own bills. And what did the Leader of the Opposition do? He said our criticism was petty insinuation—that there was not anything untoward. 'There is nothing to see here. He is just a junior woodchuck.' The Leader of the Opposition abdicated— (Time expired)

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