Maria Kovacic (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Minister 'Billboard' Shorten continuously hides behind the size of his department as to why he is unable to comply with orders for the production of documents. But that excuse is not good enough. Given the size of his department, surely there is someone able to do the work to properly comply with the many OPDs asked of his department? As we discovered, their comms team alone is some 180 FTE, which are in addition to his $300,000 per annum speechwriter. But, no, conveniently his large department is so large it's actually too big to comply with a simple order for the production of documents.

It is fascinating that Minister 'Billboard' Shorten and his team have enough time to plaster the faces of senators on a billboard to drive around the parliament. He has enough time to launch a website dedicated to a false—