Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Oh, please! Perhaps if you were not writing out your supps as you were going you could actually listen to the answer. Let’s be clear: at no stage at all in her answer yesterday did the Acting Prime Minister indicate that the government would be making a statement. It is going to be consistent with the probity advice that we have received, and the probity advice that we have received—whether you like it or I like it—we have to follow. Our advice is that we should not be making ongoing comments on the number of bidders, who the bidders are or what is contained in the bidding process. As the Acting Prime Minister said yesterday, it will be fully public and transparent because the bidders are telling everybody— (Time expired)