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

I appreciated your comments where you talked about the democratic process and how people are entitled to come along to these dinners and they get to engage with parliamentarians. I'll put on the record that anyone who wants to talk to me simply has to pick up the phone and arrange a meeting through my diary manager, and there's no cost associated with that. I'm just trying to establish whether there is a price associated with meeting with a minister versus meeting with a senator, what the intersection of that is with this legislation and how it might be treated—whether or not it's treated differently.