Nick Minchin (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance and Administration) Share this | Hansard source

I am trying to answer their question, but they are trying to drown me out. They are obviously not interested in the answer. I will try and answer the question if the opposition do not interrupt me. I am not sure that this is an appropriate form of question to the Minister representing the Prime Minister; nevertheless, I can inform Senator Evans that I undertook, as Leader of the Government in the Senate, to speak to both Senator Heffernan and Senator Nash this morning. They have both assured me that they were staggered by the extraordinary media focus upon this issue, that the matter was blown out of all proportion by the ABC and, of course, taken up by the ALP, which knows nothing other than to listen to the ABC for its—