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Hastie wasn’t hasty but right on time

28 May 2018

7:54 AM

28 May 2018

7:54 AM

When the Member for Canning, Andrew Hastie, rose last week to warn, under parliamentary privilege, of the encroachment on Australian democracy by foreign interests, Labor legal affairs spokesman Mark Dreyfus piously told the media that Hastie had misused privilege to disclose a classified security briefing given him by the Americans, and that he, Dreyfus would never have done such a thing, oh goodness no.

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