Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister for Small and Family Business, Skills and Vocational Education, Senator Cash. There are clear contradictions between the minister's statements to the Senate and statements made under oath in court by her former media adviser on her office's decision to leak advanced notice of independent police raids. The Statement of Ministerial Standards makes clear that ministers are accountable for the exercise of the powers and functions of their office, including their conduct as ministers, and are open to public scrutiny and explanation. Can the minister now categorically rule out that she was not the source of information to her staff that provided advance notice of the Federal Police raids on the Australian Workers' Union?