Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

The premise of the comments by the Leader of the Opposition are wrong. Here is what we do when we organise these things, for people who've—actually, I raised yesterday the quote of the Leader of the Opposition himself. When asked about his dealings, he said:

… there was engagement with Fiji, and as to private conversations, detailed briefings, that were conducted by DFAT and others, that's not something we will publicly comment on.

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Look, in relation to what I said or what my office said in briefings, I'm not going to comment on that.

That's what he said. Yesterday, I quoted as well, just to keep both sides of this dysfunctional political organisation on side, both Malcolm Turnbull and Tony Abbott. But it's also the case for the member for Cook. When he was Prime Minister, he said this:

We do that privately, we do that directly when we do these things.

Again and again—

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