Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Banking and Financial Services) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that, while the major $10 billion spending package on water policy had no cabinet scrutiny, the decision to spend $250,000 on a gold- and jewel-encrusted stagecoach for Her Majesty the Queen was fully considered by cabinet and after the Prime Minister’s intervention? Isn’t this just another example of a stale and tired government and a minister not ensuring due process for billions of dollars of policy expenditure?