Kim Beazley (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

The Minister for Foreign Affairs, both in question time and then subsequently in the speech just made, suggested that I attacked the character of three individuals who were Department of Foreign Affairs officers or Austrade officers and had previously served in offices of the Deputy Prime Minister and other ministers. I did absolutely no such thing. On the Sunday program when that matter was mentioned I quite explicitly said I thought it was a good thing that they had served in ministers’ offices and then served in the Public Service. What I said at the time was that it made any suggestion that information could not get into—

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