Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you to Senator Murray for that supplementary question. The tone of Senator Murray’s question and the paranoia inherent in it is quite extraordinary. Senator Murray, I would have thought you would have been better served by addressing your question to Senator Ellison, because he in fact has CrimTrac and traces such matters as money laundering and transactions if they are illegitimate. It is entirely inappropriate to be attributing to a transaction that has been announced as a possibility and one that would be subject to all of the regulatory safeguards that we have been talking about for weeks and months on end some nefarious purpose and some nefarious source. I do not think it does you any credit, Senator Murray. What you need to do is look at the stringent safeguards that we have in place— (Time expired)