Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

when there was a royal commission into the Penny Easton affair, which members will remember. Kenneth Marks was appointed as the royal commissioner. Paul Keating's response was not to look at the merits of the case but it was to attack the royal commissioner, Kenneth Marks. The immediate, instinctive, knee-jerk reaction of the Labor Party then was not to respect the courts—

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