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

I told my colleagues that the Federal Police should be allowed to carry out this investigation without let or hindrance from me or anybody in the federal government. While I was doing that, your mate Beattie was using parliamentary privilege to try and destroy the reputation of my colleagues. And you have the nerve to ask me to repudiate my colleagues. It shows the standards of the Queensland Labor Party.

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