Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. How does the minister reconcile Mr Gonski's public statements that the government was told that a majority on the Future Fund board wanted Mr Costello to be the next chair with her own claim that Mr Gonski did not make any recommendation about who to appoint? Why won't the minister stop using tricky semantics to obscure the plain fact that Mr Gonski told the government that the Future Fund board wanted Mr Costello to be its next chair?