Michaelia Cash (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

He is the Attorney; he should know. He should have at least read code of conduct. When he was questioned about this in the parliament, though—it's actually fascinating to watch, if you go online and watch the video—as Mr Dreyfus reads the code of conduct, you can see his face and he realises he needs to report back to the parliament on the matter.

But this is very typical, colleagues, of the Albanese government. What is good for the government when they are in opposition is not the standard that they are going to live by when they, themselves, get into government. This is the Prime Minister of Australia who has failed to answer very simple questions. According to the statistics, over 16 per cent of questions in the Senate are currently overdue. Sixteen per cent of the questions asked are overdue.