Peter Costello (Higgins, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Oh, Mr Speaker! Very tricky, this Leader of the Opposition, isn’t he? He goes out there and he says he is going to pay all of the money back—the $3.8 million—which we will believe when we see. It gets paid back so that the ETU can run the campaigns directly for their candidates. And the Victorian ALP keeps taking the ETU money. If this Leader of the Opposition wants to distance himself from Dean Mighell and the ETU, he will direct Stephen Newnham not to take the money from the ETU, not to take the affiliation fees; he will put his money where his principle ought to be.

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