Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Honestly, this is just a continuation of this attempted smear by Labor. This is against a hardworking local member and hardworking minister. But the truth is that Minister Taylor has declared all of his interests, consistent with the requirements in the House of Representatives and consistent with the way interests are declared by those opposite. He also stood up for his constituents in pursuing a policy issue that had been raised with him by farmers across his electorate—indeed, as documented by National Farmers Federation in a widely publicised piece of correspondence.

It has been very clear, and no amount of smearing attempted by the Labor Party has been able to show, that Minister Taylor in any way raised matters that he shouldn't have raised. Minister Taylor has always made it clear that he did not raise compliance matters, as he shouldn't. The Labor Party, at no point, has been able to show that the minister was wrong in those statements.