WHAT IS BEING SAID ABOUT CHINESE INTERFERENCE STORY
* "There is nobody else anywhere who is better placed than me to help you through this particular part of the project. Nobody. ... I can go to somebody in the minister's office and say 'can you have a close look at this?''" - Former Liberal minister Santo Santoro, who successfully lobbied for businessman Huang Xiangmo to get a meeting with Peter Dutton in 2016
* "My government has put in place the legislation to make sure we counter that foreign interference. We put millions of dollars in the budget last week to ensure that. When it comes to this issue, our government's record is squeaky clean." - Prime Minister Scott Morrison.
* "I have never received a dollar of donation from this individual and even if I did it would never influence the outcome of any decision I made." - Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton
* "What has he (Huang) got from me? He is now offshore and prevented from coming back into Australia. So somehow, you know, the beat-up of what I've seen of last night just doesn't stack up." - Mr Dutton
* "Scott Morrison is the prime minister and you can't wave this off and say it is all part of gossip and the bubble. This is the national security of Australia. Remember the furore that arose about Senator Dastyari? This has to be addressed at the highest level of security priority urgency by the prime minister. The buck stops with him." - Former PM Malcolm Turnbull
* "This is cash for access. Mr Dutton ... has to explain everything that he did in relation to Mr Huang's citizenship." - Shadow attorney-general Mark Dreyfus
