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 answers. Clause 3.2 of the ministerial standards states:

… Ministers are required to ensure that official decisions made by them as Ministers are unaffected by bias or irrelevant consideration, such as considerations of private advantage …

How can the Deputy Prime Minister be satisfied that he has complied with this ministerial standard?

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

I thank the honourable member for Isaacs. I've been advised just then that it was for a function in Armidale. Obviously decisions in the vicinity of $5,000 don't generally go across the minister's table. I am unaware of any decision that I would have ever made to be part of that decision. Anything beyond that, I'll take on notice.