Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

Picking up that much money can put your back out! He turns his back on us. We do not need any research into—

Honourable members interjecting—

He turns away! If ever there was a shiver waiting for a spine to run up, it is his. He does not have the courage to face this parliament, to face the Australian people, any more than he had the courage to tell his members the truth. That is the question. He has all the opportunities of the House to tell us what that $300,000 was really for. Was it forum tickets, conference sponsorships or training? None of those benefits—if you can call them that—were ever provided, any more than the money paid by ACI was used for paid education leave.

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