Patrick Gorman (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Let's talk about #rorts. It's been an embarrassing month to be a Western Australian. We saw the member for Moore cross the line and become a lobster lobbyist promoting his own business interests rather than the interests of his own constituents. The member should be embarrassed to be on the Privileges Committee. For most of us, 'Hello, world' is something we learn when we learn computer programming, but, for the Minister for Finance, he learnt it because it's how he discovered his own fully funded, fully paid CEO concierge service. He should be embarrassed to be the Minister for Finance.

But what's the culture? Where does this culture come from? The culture comes from the assistant minister for the Prime Minister, the member for Swan. The Prime Minister had so many people he could have chosen from to be his assistant minister. He should have chosen the member for Tangney. He should have chosen the member for Tangney, but instead he chose the member for Swan. Here is a little trip down memory lane: in 2013 the member for Swan had to repay $11,000—that's three Helloworld flights worth of flights—to Minister Cormann's Department of Finance for wrongly claimed airfares and car costs because he had to spend some 130 nights in Melbourne. I can see the electorate of Swan from my electorate of Perth. It's not very close to Melbourne. I don't know why he was there.

Andrew Laming (Bowman, Liberal Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Stop reading it. You don't need to read it.

Patrick Gorman (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I do need to read it. I need to read that he had to charge taxpayers to attend the Gold Coast golfing— (Time expired)