Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Special Minister of State. I refer the Special Minister of State to the fact that the tape of what occurred at the meeting in his electorate was played on ABC Radio and, when transcribed, read as follows:

MIKE KELLY: ... I was a soldier, and I did what I was ordered to do.

PETER PHELPS—

the minister’s chief of staff—

Oh, like the guards at Belsen perhaps? Are you using the Nuremberg Defence?

If the minister now acknowledges that this statement is unacceptable to have been made by anyone in any circumstance, what does he now intend to do in relation to this conduct by his chief of staff?

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