Stephen Jones (Whitlam, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. The Prime Minister claimed he'd never used the phrase 'Shanghai Sam' in relation to former senator Sam Dastyari. Given he used that exact phrase 17 times on 11 occasions, why did the Prime Minister claim he had never used the term when that simply wasn't true?

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm not aware of the claim that you're referring to, and I'm not going to take it at face value from those opposite.

Hon. Members:

Honourable members interjecting—

Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! I'll get the Prime Minister to start again. I couldn't hear that.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I'm not aware of the claim that the member is making, and I'm not about to accept claims at face value from those opposite. I'm not about to accept that from those opposite. The Labor Party thinks sledging, whining and whinging is a policy. That's not how you actually run a government. They have no alternative plans and they have no alternative policies, so they come here every day and engage in personal attacks on me as the Prime Minister. That's okay. Bring it on. If you want to engage in personal sledging and have a crack at where I go for holidays and if I go home and spend Father's Day with my family, bring it on. Bring it on if that's what you're on about.

Honourable members interjecting—

Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The Prime Minister will resume his seat.

Honourable members interjecting—

Order! If I can't hear the Prime Minister, I can't rule on points of order. The Manager of Opposition Business.

Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On direct relevance: there is no way that this is relevant to any of the 17 times that he used the term that he's being asked about.

Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I would ask the Prime Minister to be relevant to the question.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

On the topic of former Labor Senator Dastyari, I remember those issues very well because it was former Labor Senator Dastyari who stood up with an official—

Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Wills!

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Sorry?

Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I was correcting the member for Wills and cautioning him.

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr Speaker. I remember it was former Labor Senator Dastyari who disgraced himself by undermining Australia's sovereignty in relation to a foreign country. That's what former Senator Dastyari did, and he had to leave this place in disgrace. We have seen so many other Labor members, whether at a state level or former Labor members of this place, up on charges, off to jail. They've got enough people in Silverwater prison now to start a branch of the Labor Party there. That's what's going on with the Labor Party, and you can't trust Labor with money, because they're always after yours.

Honourable members interjecting—

Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! Once again, the level of interjections is too high.