Mark Butler (Hindmarsh, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Climate Change and Energy) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Energy Emissions Reduction. When parliament last sat, the minister said in relation to his letter to the Sydney Lord Mayor:

The document was drawn directly from the City of Sydney's website.

Does the minister now accept that he was misleading the parliament?

Angus Taylor (Hume, Liberal Party, Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I've already dealt with this and I'll table a copy of my statement from 25 October. Labor and their mates have an insatiable appetite for gossip and smear. Their hypocrisy knows no bounds. We won't be lectured to on integrity by the party of Aldi bags and wine boxes full of cash. I can advise the House that the Manager of Opposition Business wrote to me on Friday about my statement—the very same day that Eddie Obeid was paroled.

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The minister can pause for a second.

Mr Taylor interjecting—

The minister doesn't have the call. The question was pretty specific. It was not a question that enables him to give an answer by simply contrasting with other examples. The minister has completed his answer.