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Former foreign minister Alexander Downer says voters will discount commentaries made by former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull in the lead up to the federal election.
Mr Turnbull angered some of his former colleagues after he demanded Peter Dutton explain his dealings with Chinese billionaire Huang Xiangmo. The Chinese billionaire reportedly paid a lobbyist tens of thousands of dollars in exchange for a one-on-one meeting with Mr Dutton.
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