Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Sterle, as a matter of fact I can. I know this is something that you followed very closely in your role as the chair RRAT, the committee we know affectionately as RRAT in this place. I don't know about you, Senator Sterle, but I thought that the election defeat that we saw recently of the former coalition government meant that once and for all the coalition's rorts had ended—the scandals, the rorts, the media reports, finally we might be making it clear of that. But, sadly, these reports have not even ended with the defeat of this government because last week the Australian National Audit Office released yet another scathing report into the former government's management of the $1.15 billion Building Better Regions Fund.

This report confirmed what we already knew about the former government. It was the latest rort from a government notorious for rorts: sports rorts, car-park rorts, stacking the AAT—