Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Special Minister of State, and goes to items that are not covered in the document he just tabled. In May 2014 the Special Minister of State accepted Bob Day's advice that he had sold his interest in the taxpayer funded electorate office. But if the minister, his office or his department had checked publicly available land title records, they would have discovered that Senator Day still owned the property. Has the government conducted an investigation into why basic due diligence was not performed?

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

I thank the member for his question. I refer the member to the motion moved by Senator Ryan in the other place, which makes note of the fact that in November of 2014 the Department of Finance undertook a title search which confirmed the property was formally transferred to Fullarton investments in September of 2014.