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

Those advisers have been engaged by the government to assist us in the conduct of a retail share offer, should we decide to do so. It would be one of the biggest retail offers ever made by a government around the world. We hired those advisers just like the Labor Party hired a whole phalanx of advisers on how to sell the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas. This is the hypocrisy of the Labor Party: it did the right thing when it was in government by selling the Commonwealth Bank and Qantas, but now it attacks us.