House debates

Monday, 29 November 2021

Questions without Notice

Minister for Industry, Energy and Emissions Reduction

2:42 pm

Photo of Mark DreyfusMark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister's model of a national anticorruption commission have the power to investigate the energy minister meeting the environment department about an investigation into illegal poisoning of endangered grasslands on land in which he had a financial interest?

2:43 pm

Photo of Scott MorrisonScott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | | Hansard source

I will ask the Minister representing the Attorney-General to respond to that. I assume that is one of the nine frivolous referrals that were made by the questioner that were dismissed.