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

I withdraw it. But he cannot duck his responsibilities. Yesterday, I heard the Prime Minister giving out the standards of ministerial responsibility. However low the Prime Minister wants to set that bar, there is one change he cannot make, and that is to the question of misleading parliament—that is always a sackable offence. There is a lot about Senator Arbib’s performance in the last week that says the misleading of parliament is an issue. Many of the answers he has given in this parliament beggar belief. The whole scheme from top to bottom beggars belief. It beggars belief they even took the scheme on.