Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Health Administration) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Doesn’t the minister’s partisan answer prove that cooperative federalism is nothing more than a political slogan without any substance? Has the Prime Minister taken any action to reprimand state and territory Labor governments or at least reminded them of the need to work cooperatively, including with the state of Western Australia? If the Prime Minister has been too busy since this became public, given his international commitments, will he do so at the meeting on Saturday?