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Daniel Hurst was also listening to the Christian Porter interview (Scott Morrison was on at the same time, so it helped having extra ears:

Christian Porter also said that he had “never breached that ministerial code of conduct”.

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Q: What are you suggesting [should happen] – taking disciplinary action against them?

Scott Morrison:

I think Australians understand more about human frailty than perhaps you are giving them credit.

You know, family breakdown and individual decisions of people, and there is also no suggestion here of anything non consensual, I should stress.

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