House debates

Tuesday, 16 June 2009

Personal Explanations

3:51 pm

Photo of Peter DuttonPeter Dutton (Dickson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Health and Ageing) Share this | Hansard source

During question time today, as the Minister for Foreign Affairs approached the dispatch box, I said to him that if he used the words ‘fair shake of the sauce bottle’ then this clearly was a contribution by the Prime Minister; that is, that his words were clearly provided to him by the Prime Minister—or words to that effect. And that has been somehow manipulated by the foreign affairs minister into some sort of a statement that we do not support the government in a bipartisan position in relation to concern about developments in Iran at the moment. It is a complete misrepresentation of what I said. It is clear that the Prime Minister writes every word for this foreign affairs minister and that is the point I was trying to make.

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