Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Digital Transformation) Share this | Hansard source

I'm not going to be cross-examined by Rumpole of the Bailey here, who is running a protection racket for a corrupt union movement that remains in control of this Labor Party. I have no intention of doing that. The issue here is one of the national interest. There is a much broader issue than the sort of nonsense, smear and innuendo that this man specialises in dragging into the parliament. The issue is the Australian Labor Party, financed by, run by, candidates preselected by the Australian union movement, the head of which says they don't need to submit to the Australian law. We believe in the rule of the law. We respect the rule of law. I don't break the law. My office doesn't break the law. Unfortunately, you can't say that for the people who run the Labor Party.

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