Scott Morrison has attempted to draw a line under historical rape allegations against Christian Porter after the attorney general emphatically denied the claims and police ended their investigation.
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Porter denies rape allegations
Federal minister Christian Porter has denied allegations he raped a 16-year-old girl in the 1980s.
Mr Porter, who has engaged MinterEllison as counsel, strongly denied the allegations in a press conference at noon Perth time, saying that what had been alleged simply did not happen.
Mr Porter said the allegations appeared to refer to a period in 1988 during an end-of-school debating competition at a Sydney University.
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