Jane Hume (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for the Public Service) Share this | Hansard source

Just for the minister's information, I have dozens of questions here that we would really like the answers to, and I am still on question 1, and I've asked it three times now. I will go back and remind you that the deal with the Greens was only done yesterday. So can you confirm not that Minister Husic is a good fellow, because I'm sure he is, but whether he has in fact consulted with industry since that time—since the deal was announced—or potentially whether industry was consulted before the deal was announced? If it was consulted, either before the deal was announced or since the deal was announced, who in industry did the minister consult? Was it a peak body? Was it an individual manufacturer? Was it somebody that would qualify for this fund? Who is it that the minister has spoken to since this deal was done?