PM apologises for erroneously stating Kevin Rudd had left and re-entered Australia during Covid
by Katharine Murphy Political editor from World news | The Guardian on (#5BAQ5)
Scott Morrison has written to the clerk of the lower house correcting the record and apologising to the former Labor leader
Scott Morrison has written to the clerk of the House of Representatives correcting the record and apologising to Kevin Rudd after declaring erroneously in question time that the former Labor prime minister had been allowed to leave and re-enter Australia during the pandemic.
The controversy began when Labor on Monday asked Morrison why Tony Abbott and Alexander Downer had been able to leave and re-enter the country multiple times this year when there are thousands of vulnerable stranded Australians who haven't been able to get home once?"
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