Stephen Smith (Perth, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Let us be under no doubt as to why this question has come and the context. I make no apology for standing up for an 18-year-old member of the ADF when she was vulnerable and in distress. I make no apology for making very strongly the point in principle that it is wrong to bring into play the conduct of the innocent victim of an alleged sexual assault.

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