Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

the Auditor-General conducted a serious report into this matter. All the recommendations of that report were adopted by the government and are being implemented by the government. The Auditor-General had access to all the materials for the Minister for Sport and all the correspondence found none of the matters that the member was alleging in that question—none of them—were in relation to me or my office. The ANAO had access to all of these things and they made no such finding. I asked the Secretary of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet to investigate this matter into the Statement of Ministerial Standards and any possible breaches of the ministerial standards, and the minister, when I presented those findings to her, resigned as the minister.

I have taken this matter extremely seriously. We have adopted the recommendations of the report, a further inquiry was initiated and the minister resigned from her post. One side of the House is taking this matter very seriously and has taken the actions that are necessary. The other side of the house is just engaged in a desperate political smear campaign to prop up what is a very feeble leader of the Labor Party.

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