George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, when you review the transcript, as I have requested you to do, you will note that, for four times now, the minister has defied your ruling.

My second supplementary question is this: given that the government regards the matter as being of sufficient gravity to call in the Australian Federal Police, will the government also request the Auditor-General to determine the loss to the Commonwealth of the debacle of this corrupted tender process? If not, why not?