Ms Julie Bishop (Curtin, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer to her claim on 23 August that she had no involvement in the AWU fund after helping set it up in early 1992. I refer to this article by Hedley Thomas which states that the Prime Minister and Bernard Murphy were advising Ralph Blewitt in a defamation action against AWU officials in late 1993. It says:

Mr Blewitt said the defamation action was vital to silence dissenters because if they had succeeded in ousting him the slush fund … would have been exposed …

Given the Prime Minister's involvement in this defamation action don't you agree that— (Time expired)

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