Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, what you conveniently omitted from that extract of your statement was the fact that you had been provided with information and knowledge prior to it becoming public. Section 5.1 of the same ministerial code of conduct says:

Ministers are required to provide an honest and comprehensive account of their exercise of public office … in response to any reasonable and bona fide enquiry by a member of the Parliament …

Minister, why have you consistently refused to live up to that standard by denying the reality that you did mislead the Senate?