Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Special Minister of State. I refer to the minister's answers in question time last week and today. On 29 March 2012, now former journalist Steve Lewis sent an email to the minister which read:

On how many occasions has Peter Slipper travelled to New Zealand since July 2010?

DIARY EXTRACTS—CAN THESE BE PROVIDED FOR THE FOLLOWING DATES:

Did the minister agree to obtain unauthorised copies of the Speaker's official diary for a journalist? As a matter of government policy, does the minister now give unauthorised copies of other documents to journalists?

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