Joe Hockey (North Sydney, Liberal Party, Shadow Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Treasurer. I refer the Treasurer to an email dated 28 April 2009 and distributed by his own office this week. This email, on a car dealer, was sent to the offices of the Prime Minister and the Treasurer and to the respective departmental secretaries and it states:

By the way—and in the unlikely event that you do not know—most of this woman’s employees live and work in the electorate of—

And here the words ‘the electorate’ have been omitted and replaced with the term ‘Liberal electorate’. Did this dealer receive assistance in the same way that John Grant did? Why was political representation relevant? Was it part of the Treasurer’s selection criteria, given this dealer was not a mate of the Prime Minister?

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