David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Of course I do not support such a request for an inquiry. These allegations, made by someone who is currently in Indonesia, are the epitome of hearsay. They are made by someone who has wasted his money and lost his opportunity to surreptitiously enter this country. These are unsubstantiated and scurrilous allegations—hearsay and innuendo—made by someone who is completely disaffected, having lost all of the matters that I have put to you.

The fact that a former senator and Labor member would so quickly take the side of someone seeking to illegally enter our country in the face of the hard and heroic work of Royal Australian Navy personnel sickens me. (Time expired)