Responding to claims he misled parliament when answering questions about Brittany Higgins' rape accusations, Scott Morrison acknowledged he may have been mistaken at the time but that he rejects suggestions he deliberately intended to mislead parliament.
The former prime minister addressed the House of Representatives following reports in The Weekend Australian he had misled parliament during Question Time on February 18, 2021.
But in an interview published on Saturday, Ms Brown said at the time of his statement, no such conversations had occurred between herself and the then-Prime Minister. In response to the accusation, the former prime minister said that while he believed his answer to be accurate at the time, he could not “fully discount that [Ms Brown’s] recollection of those events now were the more accurate.”
The former prime minister said the statement in question had occurred during “an extremely busy week” and that his answer had been based on “numerous briefing” and “numerous meetings on what was known about those events”
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