Andrew Wallace (Fisher, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'll get to that in a moment. But it was absolutely fascinating, when the news of this story broke, to watch the Prime Minister and to watch the member for Watson and Senator Watt saying, 'We had no idea this was going on.' The member for Watson, last time I checked, in a former role was the industrial relations minister. One would think that as the industrial relations minister he would have had a keen eye on decisions that were coming out of the Federal Court. Admittedly, those decisions long pre-date his being the minister for industrial relations, but he was in that role or a similar role as the shadow minister for many years prior to the Labor Party taking government. The member for Watson said, 'Look, we had no idea this was going on, and yet the Federal Court spoke regularly in their judgements.

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