Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, you'll be aware that in the three arms of government—being the executive, the legislature and the judiciary—under our Constitution, there is an overlap' and that overlap exists in the circumstance where someone is both a member of parliament and a minister, so there's an overlap between the legislature and executive. I'm interested in the dinners that you have been to where the dinner has been advertised as a dinner with a member of the executive, as opposed to a senator. It's a reasonable question. I'm differentiating between you—I know you're the same person, but you are actually being characterised in two different roles under our Constitution: as a senator and as a minister, and it's the second one that I'm interested in.