Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Immigration and Border Protection) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for his question. In any open tender process, anybody is able to make application or to submit a tender for that work—unless the opposition is suggesting that people should be excluded on a particular basis. Then they'd need to put that forward to articulate that. I don't think that's what they're suggesting. I think this is more to do with some sort of smear campaign to try and push back against what we have raised legitimately in this question time today in relation to this Leader of the Opposition and questions about his character. That's what I think this is about. This is more about some sort of deflection from the criticism rightly levelled at this Leader of the Opposition during question time today.

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