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

Mr Deputy President, very briefly, can I just ask the minister what Mr Mike Kaiser, the very highly paid government relations officer for NBN, a former Labor Party apparatchik in both Queensland and New South Wales, is doing to earn the huge salary he is receiving from his appointment—without any competition, I might add. This would seem to be something that Mr Kaiser should be looking at as the government relations man, and I just wonder if the minister could indicate what Mr Kaiser is possibly doing to justify his huge salary.