Prime Minister Julia Gillard has batted opposition questions on the AWU matter in parliament. Source: AAP
PRIME Minister Julia Gillard has batted opposition questions on the AWU matter in parliament, by referring to answers she gave at a 50-minute media conference before question time.
Deputy Opposition Leader Julie Bishop opened question time on Monday by asking Ms Gillard why she provided legal advice to AWU officials Ralph Blewitt and Bruce Wilson to establish the Australian Workers' Union Reform Association, in contravention of union rules.
"I have just dealt with this precise question at a press conference," Ms Gillard told parliament.
Liberal frontbencher Bronwyn Bishop then raised a point of order, saying Ms Gillard did not deserve to be prime minister if she thought questions by journalists substituted for questions by members.
Ms Gillard belittled the interjection, saying she had just had one of those "ultra-secret things" called a press conference.
"That's what you do: you call a press conference in front of the full press gallery and conduct it for the best part of an hour if you don't want people to know what you said," Ms Gillard joked.
In a subsequent question from the deputy leader of the opposition, Ms Gillard said she stood by the statements made in Monday's media conference and a marathon media conference she had held in August.
"My role in relation to this matter was as a lawyer, providing advice to clients based on their instructions to me," she said.
She said she did not operate the association, she was not an office bearer of it, and she did deal with any transactions associated with any bank accounts.
"I say to the deputy leader of the opposition, and really it goes to much of the sleaze and muck-racking the opposition has been engaged in, if she has a real allegation of wrongdoing by me, then put it," she said.
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