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

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Given that Ms Gillard admitted in a formal interview with the partners of Slater & Gordon on 11 September 1995, shortly before her sudden departure from that firm, that she had indeed set up a 'slush fund'—her own words—for the very purpose of funding union elections within the AWU, why is it acceptable for the Prime Minister's own conduct, by her own admission, to fall short of the minimum standards of probity demanded by her own Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations?