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

I'm delighted to get that question because it shows the desperation of the Labor Party. They're desperately trying to blow smoke around and cover up the intimate relationship between Senator Dastyari and, so it would seem, the Leader of the Opposition. So they have a photograph of me at a Chinese event in a public street in Sydney. Well, hooray for that. What a revelation! If you'd had a wider angle lens, you could have got the other 5,000 people who were there as well.

What we really need to know is this: what did the Leader of the Opposition say to Senator Dastyari, directly or indirectly, that prompted him, Senator Dastyari, to go to Mr Huang's house, the house that the Leader of the Opposition had visited and knew well, and tell him how to avoid surveillance activities by ASIO? The Leader of the Opposition has got to tell us that. He hasn't. He's had five weeks to talk about it and he's now had 25 minutes today in the House. He hasn't been able to provide an answer. What did he say to Senator Dastyari? And what does it say about the character of the Leader of the Opposition that he has a senator who takes money from this businessman, who is a foreign national and works closely as an agent of a foreign country?

They talked about money—I'm not talking about donations here. What we're talking about is money that Senator Dastyari took for himself.

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