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

This is getting really quite curious. By Senator Keneally's twisted logic, the Australian Banking Association is a front group for the Labor Party, because a former national president of the Labor Party, in Anna Bligh, is setting up the Australian Banking Association. What you're saying is that because somebody has provided service in a political party—distinguished service like that provided by Mr Brian Loughnane—they're somehow besmirching the work that is done by the organisation they're working for. That is absolutely ridiculous. It is outrageous, quite frankly. I'm now going to say that everything that is done by the Banking Association is going to be done in the name of the Labor Party, by your twisted logic.