Julian McGauran (Victoria, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. The minister’s answer is in direct contradiction of an answer he gave to the Senate yesterday, and that was that all departments and all ministerial officers were present. So the minister has either misled the Senate or he is covering up for the Prime Minister, who would have been aware, or his officers would have been aware, of all the problems with the program. So the question to the minister is: was anyone present from the Prime Minister’s office? Do you stand by your comment yesterday that all officers from all departments and the ministers— (Time expired)