Tony Smith (Casey, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. I refer the Prime Minister to the appointment of former Queensland ALP secretary Mike Kaiser to a $450,000-a-year job at the National Broadband Network at the suggestion of his Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, a job that was not advertised. How is this consistent with the Prime Minister’s statement of 3 August 2008:

… the Government believes in practising a new way of governing that is more transparent, more accountable …

Does the Prime Minister stand by the actions of his minister—yes or no?

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