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

Members will recall how Senator Dastyari called a press conference at the Commonwealth Parliament Offices in Sydney and stood there before the Australian flag, before a lectern with the Australian Commonwealth coat of arms, next to his Chinese benefactor, who also stood at a lectern with an Australian coat of arms, and he publicly contradicted Labor's official foreign policy, for a reported $400,000. What did the Leader of the Opposition do, in the face of the most extraordinary public admission of foreign interference and influence? He slapped him on the wrist, sent him to the backbench for a couple of months, and Senator Sam Dastyari is now back in a leadership position in the Labor Party. This Leader of the Opposition sold out our national interest. (Time expired)

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