Sussan Ley (Farrer, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Women) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Home Affairs. Can the minister now confirm that she verbally abused the secretary of her department, causing the secretary to leave her office in tears?

Clare O'Neil (Hotham, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Home Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Yes, I say again to the deputy leader, with respect, that she has now asked me the same question about five times and I'm going to give her the same answer. And the answer is that Secretary Foster and I enjoy a very warm and collaborative relationship. We have an enormous job to deal with because we are, together, managing a department which was left in a catastrophic mess by the now Leader of the Opposition—cybersecurity, immigration and parts of national security needed a big clean-up effort. We're working on it together, and we're doing that in a warm and collaborative— (Time expired)