Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Northern Australia) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Minister representing the Minister for Energy and Emissions Reduction, Senator Birmingham. The minister continues to rely on Minister Taylor's statement that false travel costs used in official ministerial correspondence to the Sydney lord mayor were obtained from a document—and I quote—'drawn directly from the City of Sydney's website'. This is despite the City of Sydney having provided metadata demonstrating that only the correct version of the document was ever made available on its website. When did the minister first become aware that Minister Taylor had used doctored travel costs in official ministerial correspondence?