Senator CASH (Western Australia—Minister for Employment, Skills, Small and Family Business and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:13): This was not that same chief of staff. I will again confirm on behalf of the chief of staff against which the allegations have been made that I am particularly disappointed with the potentially defamatory allegations published by the ABC, which are false, made against my former chief of staff, who, as I said, despite now being a private citizen, was not even given a chance to respond to the story before it was published.
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