John Howard (Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I thank you for that ruling, but I am quite happy to address the issue of rorting. Might I say that I totally reject it. We have sought to establish whether there has been any illegal conduct—whether there has been a breach of a law of the Commonwealth, a state or a territory—because that is what Kofi Annan asked us to do, and that is what we are doing.

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