Slade Brockman (WA, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I suspect they probably would. And what have we got here? As Senator Kovacic very clearly outlined, we have the current president of the Labor Party, the former Treasurer of Australia—a failed Treasurer but we will put that to one side—the chairman of an industry super fund who can communicate directly with the Treasurer about a government policy and then commit that super fund to investing in that government policy.

That is more than a whiff of corruption, Senator Ayres. That is an absolute disgrace. If the situation was reversed, Senator Ayres—