Mark Arbib (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Government Service Delivery) Share this | Hansard source

Again, I just confirm that the education minister agreed to the list of projects as they were recommended by the independent panel. The education minister has never spoken to panel members about their selections. It was an independent process. I know that some senators on the other side of the chamber—the Liberal Party, the National Party—know nothing about independent processes. We know the people who put together the ‘regional rorts’, the ethanol plants that did not exist and the funding down on Bondi Beach in the electorate of the member for Wentworth, do not understand independent process. But we certainly do and that is how this was done.