House debates

Thursday, 21 February 2008

Personal Explanations

3:36 pm

Photo of Patrick SeckerPatrick Secker (Barker, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Today the Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government claimed in parliament that I was a shareholder in Keith Seeds. My letter to the previous minister—and the public record—clearly shows that I was informing him that I had previously sold those shares to avoid any possible conflict of interest. Since being a member of parliament, I have never attended a shareholder meeting of that company or sent a representative or, indeed, received a dividend, because they are not those types of shares. Is this the grubby sort of behaviour—

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