Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Mackellar, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Seniors) Share this | Hansard source

We can check Hansard to see the context of my question. My intent was clear to me; I am sorry it was not clear to you. But thank you for those answers. I will go again to the question of Dr Henry. You did not tell me whether or not he has left the Public Service or, if he has left, when he left. You said that he has been appointed as a special adviser, without saying to whom he is special adviser. You have said that he has been appointed to the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet, and that is useful, but I would like to know the terms and conditions of his appointment.

The parliamentary secretary has been at great pains to say that Dr Henry was a great public servant. In the eyes of many that may well have been true during much of his career, but at the end he certainly became very partisan. I am not at all surprised that he has been given this rather political appointment to take up advising the Prime Minister—

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