Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

One of the features of this inquiry of some 12 months with regard to the wheat scandal—and it is a scandal; it is properly dubbed one of Australia’s worst corruption scandals—has been the Labor Party’s shift from allegation to claim to assertion, and the previous speaker epitomises that. When each one was proven false along the way, they have found another reason to whip up an issue, exaggerate—indeed, slur—give false witness and, in fact, lie all along the way. The previous speaker, who is in great denial—