Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Special Minister of State. I refer to the minister's previous answer. How can the diary have been unsolicited when the minister asked James Ashby, by SMS, for a clearer copy, in these words: 'Can that be emailed James it is hard to read Mal.brough2@bigpond.com'?

Mal Brough (Fisher, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The honourable member continues to try to prosecute a case here.

Graham Perrett (Moreton, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

They're your words!

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Moreton will leave under 94(a).

The member for Moreton then left the chamber—

Mal Brough (Fisher, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Why don't you take a cold shower, wait and allow the judicial system and the legal system to take its course.

Ms Burke interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Chisholm is warned!

Mal Brough (Fisher, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Or is it the fact that the member for Isaacs knows full well what the outcome of that will be and so he wishes to prosecute it today for his own pathetic political purposes?