Bob McMullan (Fraser, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Federal/State Relations) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the Attorney-General from coming into this House and detailing the operation of the secret taxpayer funded political unit operating out of his ministerial office at 70 Phillip Street, Sydney, including:

(1)

the date of the secret unit’s establishment;

(2)

the annual cost to taxpayers of the secret unit’s operation;

(3)

the secret unit’s full staffing arrangements;

(4)

the secret unit’s reporting arrangements;

(5)

the function of the secret unit including its monitoring of non-government media comment and other activities;

(6)

the relationship between the secret unit and the taxpayer funded government members secretariat;

(7)

the relationship between the secret unit and other taxpayer funded units operating out of other ministerial offices;

(8)

the relationship between the secret unit and the federal secretariat of the Liberal Party;

(9)

the relationship between the secret unit and Crosby Textor; and

(10)

the reason that the existence of this unit has been kept secret from the Australian Parliament and the Australian people.

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