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

My question is to the Deputy Prime Minister and I'll refer to his previous answer. Answers to questions on notice from Senate estimates make clear that an agency under the Deputy Prime Minister's administration made a payment of more than $5,000 of taxpayers' money to a business owned by the Deputy Prime Minister's close friend, Mr Greg Maguire. Is it the position of the Deputy Prime Minister that he was unaware of this payment?

Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the honourable member for Isaacs for his question and, I have to admit, I was unaware of that $5,000 payment.