Gary Gray (Brand, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Regional Development and Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

This is a debate about balance on the committee. It is a debate about the integrity of the committee. It is a debate where the government is quite prepared to allow for an additional opposition member. It is a debate where the government is allowed to put integrity first, unlike those opposite who are only prepared to sit here in defence of the disgraceful. The very first correspondence I got when I was elected to this place was three volumes of the Audit Office’s report into your Regional Partnerships program. We have had extensive debate in this place—

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