Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Cabinet Secretary, Senator Sinodinos. It relates to his previous answers about matters before the New South Wales Independent Commission Against Corruption. In question time yesterday, the minister categorically denied that he had ever participated in or witnessed discussions about the use of the Free Enterprise Foundation to channel and disguise prohibited donations to the New South Wales Liberal Party. Does he recall that, when asked by counsel assisting ICAC if he were party to a discussion that canvassed channelling and disguising donations, he said, 'If there were such a suggestion it went over my head'? Why has the minister told the Senate one thing and the Independent Commission Against Corruption another?