Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Obviously, the Prime Minister raised this issue in question time. As I understand it, in a technical sense there is a costs order. To the extent to which that is true, I apologise if I misled the House. I was not aware of, nor did I fully understand, that matter at the time. But I can explain to the House that I understand there was no agreement between the parties as to costs, there was no dollar figure and there has been no demand on me for costs. On that basis, I was not aware that a costs order had been made. If the Prime Minister wants to continue to spend taxpayers' money and continue to argue that 10 per cent has been given back by a costs order he can do so—

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