Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

As always, I am an open book, Senator Whish-Wilson. I said last week that I wanted to talk to our friends on the crossbench and I have been doing that. Of course I want our friends on the crossbench—whether they be the good senators representing the Palmer United Party, whether they be Senator Ricky Muir, Senator Bob Day or Senator David Leyonhjelm—to be properly briefed on what we are actually doing rather than what the Labor Party and the Greens are misleading people into believing we are doing. Unlike the Labor Party, the Palmer United Party has engaged with the government in a very positive and constructive way and I have welcomed the engagement with the Palmer United Party. In terms of how that—