Steve Hutchins (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

The purpose of my explanation is this: I was not going to say anything about the article that Mr Milne put in the paper yesterday and would not have done so except that Mr Slipper got up this afternoon and said it was full of misrepresentations. It was not. Mr Slipper used that satellite phone on the ship. At some point we were about to be part of a boarding party on an oil tanker—that is, Mr Randall, Senator Bushby, Mr Slipper and I—but we were advised sometime during that morning that that had been cancelled because of what had been said on the satellite phone.