Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

They got half a billion dollars. These questions were raised with the minister. What would any minister worth their salt do when they received that? They'd ask more questions. But that's not what the Leader of the Opposition did. Instead, he sent back a one-word response: 'Noted'—no follow-up, no questions, no investigation and no integrity.

What it looks very much like from the outcomes of the Richardson review is that, despite all of the questions that have been raised over a period of a decade about the integrity of these contracts and the links to criminal wrongdoing, our supposed tough cop on the beat didn't ask a single thing, ask a single question or launch a single investigation. So, when it finally came—

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