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 refer to his previous answer. How can the Deputy Prime Minister claim he was unaware of the payment of more than $5,000 of taxpayers' money to a business owned by Mr Greg Maguire when the payment was made for an event at the Quality Hotel Powerhouse in Armidale and the Deputy Prime Minister personally attended in front of more than 80 witnesses? How can the Deputy Prime Minister claim he didn't know when more than 80 people saw him there?

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 it would not be surprising that in a multibillion dollar department that I'm not aware of a $5,000 payment.