Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

The question at the start refers to a specific statement that the minister has made to the House. The reference to the FOI points to that statement being untrue, so it is completely appropriate that a minister is able to be asked. It's not like we've simply said 'refer to previous answers' in the general. We have gone specifically to a claim he made that is contradicted by a decision of his department.

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