Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer the minister to his answer earlier this week in which he, in relation to the advice, indicated that he would not mislead the Senate in reporting that advice. I infer from that, through you, Mr President, that the minister has read the advice. I again ask the minister to table the advice. I note on previous occasions he has refused to do so. Minister, isn’t it the case that, if this advice absolved the government of any wrongdoing in its use of a taxpayer funded residence for Liberal Party fundraising purposes, you would table it? Why don’t you table the advice in the Senate on this occasion?