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

Three months. One would think that when you are elected on a platform of transparency, integrity and accountability, no questions would be overdue.

But it gets worse because, when you break down the 16 per cent, over 40 per cent of that 16 per cent are actually overdue and they were directed to the Prime Minister of Australia. He has only been asked 48 questions on notice yet he thinks this parliament, the Senate, is beneath him to respond. As I said, if you treat the opposition in this place with contempt, you are treating the Australian people with contempt. The Australian people, who believed in transparency, integrity and accountability, are being failed miserably by the Prime Minister of Australia. Transparency, integrity and accountability—those are words in the lead up to an election which the Prime Minister is happy to throw around happily but, when he gets into government, it all goes out the window.