House debates

Tuesday, 15 August 2017

Questions without Notice

Qualifications of Members

2:06 pm

Photo of Malcolm TurnbullMalcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

What we have seen already in the Labor Party with Senator Dastyari is somebody who sold out the Labor Party's policy on the South China Sea in return for the payment of his legal expenses by a company called Yuhu Group led by Mr Xiangmo Huang, who had close links to China's Communist Party. That was cash for comment—no question about that whatsoever. Senator Dastyari was, for a very short time, dropped from the Labor executive as a result. In the last week we have seen the Australian Labor Party contact a Labour member in the New Zealand parliament and ask him to raise issues about the citizenship of the Deputy Prime Minister—

Mr Danby interjecting

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