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

Senator Pratt is again misleading the chamber because what I have made very clear, including yesterday, is that any proposition which has been reported from time to time that I somehow was the architect of preference arrangements with anyone, including with One Nation, is false. I was definitely not the architect of any preference arrangements. Preference arrangements are a matter for the party organisation, which guards that responsibility jealously, as is appropriate. So I would say to Senator Pratt, 'Don't mislead the chamber.' The other thing I would say is that it is time that the WA Labor Party actually started to focus on what they were elected to do and that is to serve the people of Western Australia instead of pursuing petty juvenile university politics.