Peter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, again, just dig a little bit deeper here because these attacks of a personal nature are only based on the lies and the information of an individual, which I will go to in a second. The officer that you spoke of is a decorated and distinguished officer with over 20 years of service with the Queensland Police Service. He applied for a job with Australian Border Force. There was no interference with that process. He went through the organisational requirements, and he was employed by Australian Border Force, and he has done so completely on merit.

Now, if you've got a suggestion to the contrary, I'd be happy to hear it, but I'd be happy if you made the statements outside of this place, because this smear is coming from the former Australian Border Force commissioner, a man who was, as commissioner, sacked from his position. He is a man who had groomed a girl 30 years younger than himself. He is discredited and disgraced, Mr Speaker. The reality is that he was—

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