Kate Lundy (ACT, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Local Government) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to Senator Ellison, the Minister for Human Services. Is the minister aware that the managing director of Health Services Australia, Mr Walter Kmet, has again corrected his evidence to a recent Senate estimates hearing? Doesn’t Mr Kmet’s latest correction completely contradict his earlier assurances to the Senate? Can the minister now confirm that Mr Kmet privately alerted a former colleague, and no-one else, of the opportunity to apply for a $3.75 million worth of contracts? Mr Kmet personally approved those contracts without any public tender or competing bids and, in awarding those contracts, Mr Kmet did not disclose his former working relationship with the provider. Doesn’t the seriousness of this evidence justify referral of this matter to the AFP for proper investigation?