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

Without disputing anything you just put there about newspaper reports and the like, the substance of this is two things: one, it relates to a message between one minister and another, between the minister the Deputy Prime Minister is representing and himself about Inland Rail, and, two, asks whether or not the Inland Rail route is settled. The Deputy Prime Minister has to be responsible for that. He has to be able to answer that and—

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