Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Does the minister agree with her departmental secretary, who volunteered, ‘I know nothing about program risk management’? Was that the reason the Prime Minister has chosen this secretary and this minister to take over responsibility for others’ failures? Why has the Rudd government moved programs that have been bungled to a department that admits to having no experience in program delivery, let alone risk management?