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

My question is to the Minister representing the Special Minister of State. According to reports, the Millennium Forum was established as a vehicle to conceal the identity of Liberal Party donors. The Millennium Forum has never declared a donation to the Australian Electoral Commission, despite some individual donors confirming donations to the forum. Given the Millennium Forum was in operation during the Treasurer's time as director of the New South Wales Liberal Party—a time in which he signed AEC disclosures—has the Treasurer advised the Prime Minister of any conflicts he has in representing the Special Minister of State?

Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Treasurer) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I notice they have gone away from their banking questions today. I am not going to dignify the misrepresentations of the member opposite, particularly not from the party of Eddie Obeid and all the other ski-lodge hosts of those opposite. If they want to have a discussion about the New South Wales Labor Party that they were all part of, that put them all into the benches that they sit on opposite us, they should go right ahead—because there is not a hole dark enough that the New South Wales Labor Party have not been in. They are the party that wrote the book on corruption in New South Wales under Labor, but they have the gall to come into this place and throw this sort of muck around. Those opposite are the party of Craig Thomson—the party of Craig Thomson. Has the union got its money back yet from Craig Thomson that he used for the brothel? I do not think they have. This is a bankrupt party. When it comes to these matters, they are in no position to lecture anyone.