Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I join with other senators in congratulating you on your appointment. My question is to the Minister for Employment, Senator Cash. On 25 October, the minister told the Senate Education and Employment Legislation Committee that, in a question time briefing with the Prime Minister, she 'advised him'—the Prime Minister—'that what Anthony Albanese had said was not true'. Given that Mr Albanese said:

We know that Senator Cash's office was ringing around media organisations yesterday afternoon, telling them that this was going to occur.

can the minister confirm that what Mr Albanese said was, in fact, true?