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

As the Minister representing the Prime Minister in this place, I act on advice and I report faithfully and honestly the advice provided to me. As to the tabling of advice, as Senator Wong would know, it is the practice of all governments, both present and past, not to table internal advice. We are not proposing to table the advice. We continue to point out to people like Senator Wong that this was not a fundraising function. The Prime Minister, as the Prime Minister, invited, as he is able to—as former Prime Ministers Keating, Hawke and others have—guests to his official residence. These were Liberal Party people, yes. These were business observers to the Federal Council of the Liberal Party, yes. All the additional costs of that function were paid for by the Liberal Party.