Scott Morrison has evaded questions from the opposition over why he called former Labor senator Sam Dastyari ‘Shanghai Sam’ and then denied he’d ever used that term. The prime minister declared he was unaware of ‘the claim’, and did not intend to take statements on the question ‘at face value’. However, Morrison has used using the moniker multiple times on camera and radio and even multiple times during Question Time in 2019. Here are just a few.
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