Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Indeed, a reported $400,000 was all it took for Senator Dastyari to trash Labor's official foreign policy position. We know the spectacle during the 2016 election when Labor's then defence spokesman Senator Conroy stood at the National Press Club and outlined Labor's official foreign policy on freedom of navigation in the South China Sea, only to be publicly contradicted just hours later by the then Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate, Senator Sam Dastyari.

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