Parents of woman who made accusation against minister support inquiry – as it happened

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I've spoken to the coach of the 1988 South Australian debating team, Anthony Durkin, about his recollections of the international debating competition at Sydney University at the centre of the allegations against Christian Porter, which the attorney general strenuously denies. Durkin coached the alleged victim.

He told the Guardian he fully supported an inquiry into the circumstances of her death and the allegations. Durkin made it clear that he had not seen or heard anything that confirmed whether the allegations were true.

Christian seemed like a nice boy to me. At the same time, there's nothing about [the alleged victim] that makes me in retrospect think she's a fabulist. That she would invent anything like that.

She was straight up and down.

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That's where I will leave you for today. Here's what we learned: