Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

But that's not surprising. I'll tell you the way that the Westminster system operates and has operated here since Federation: you have a cabinet, then you have cabinet committees. But those opposite, of course, had a cabinet committee of one—with one member—so that they could avoid transparency and so that they could have discussions and say it was a meeting of the cabinet committee, with people co-opted onto it. But then we know opposite: when it comes to transparency and the functioning of government, we had the former Minister for Home Affairs who didn't know that he was the co-minister; we had the Minister for Health who didn't know that there was another one; we had the Minister for Industry, Science and Energy who didn't know there was another one; and we had programs set up to fund industry and manufacturing, where the final decision-maker wasn't actually the minister—it was the Prime Minister.

I'll tell you what is occurring now and what those opposite mightn't recognise: we have a proper cabinet government that has cohort comments from ministers, that doesn't have PowerPoint presentations from Crosby Textor, and that has proper deliberations that result in outcomes that are then released through legislation. They are the processes that we have. They are in place. For those opposite: when the minister raised a very clear statement about what occurred, the minister transferred the shares that she owned to her husband—

Seriously?

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