Matthew Canavan (Queensland, Liberal National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I'd just like this right of reply. You had a Labor senator get up and call into question the integrity of coalition politicians for meeting with big tobacco. That's what happened. That's what happened a few hours ago. No number of weasel words will remove from the record that your own senator got up and called into question the integrity of Liberal and National politicians for having the temerity to meet with the tobacco industry. Now you have just admitted under questioning that the WHO convention framework that you referenced says that public officials—and I'm a public official; I am under all the legislation—can meet with the tobacco industry for the purposes of public policy as I just said. So you need to be called out for this because you can't come into this place and call into question others' integrity without being held to account. You were misleading the Senate before by doing so. You were absolutely misleading the Senate by—