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

Senator Nettle has just made an extraordinary and, I would say, outrageous allegation against a sitting senator. She has come into this place under parliamentary privilege and accused a fellow senator of the crime of theft. That is what I understood her question to be based on. That is a very serious allegation. I hope she is going to substantiate such an allegation and not hide in here and make such outrageous allegations in this place. She should now prove her complaint. If she has any complaint about any member of this Senate conducting illegal activities, she should go to the police appropriately. To come in here and use question time to make serious allegations of criminal activity by a fellow senator is outrageous.