Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

The electorate of Lindsay? I am not familiar with the electorate of Lindsay. Do you mean Karen Ehrmann from Townsville and the then mayor Tony Mooney—who I hear is going to be running for Herbert, and it was suggested there was a bit of vote rigging going on there. Mayor Mooney, the Labor party mayor, was touted as being a future candidate. There are lots of rumours, but I never listen to rumours, I only repeat what is in the paper, but it was suggested that he might have been involved in a bit of vote rigging.. We know Karen Ehrmann was. She was a Labor councillor on Mr Mooney’s council and she actually went to jail, poor little Karen. She was the fall guy, or the fall lady I might say. But you directed me very successfully from Mr Mike Kaiser. Because members of the Labor Party in the Senate have distracted me I am afraid time is not going to let me go into Mr Mike Kaiser’s alleged vote rorting so I will have to seek leave to continue my remarks, lest anyone else should want to talk about it. If nobody does I will seek leave to continue my remarks and next time I speak we might be able to go into more detail on Mr Kaiser’s involvement in the NBN Co. Ltd. I seek leave to continue my remarks.

Leave granted; debate adjourned