Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister Assisting the Leader for Science) Share this | Hansard source

I will follow through on the theme. The process has been haphazard and piecemeal, and of course it has followed the long tradition in this area—that is, there is usually a scandal brought about by public exposure of corruption in one form or another, and I regard what is happening here as corruption. Unfortunately, we have a continuation of that theme developing. I remind senators—and I acknowledge the minister's comment that John Howard started this process—that it is all very well to point to the previous government—