Senate debates

Monday, 20 March 2023

Committees

Department of Finance: Discretionary Payments; Order for the Production of Documents

3:46 pm

Photo of Malcolm RobertsMalcolm Roberts (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | | Hansard source

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Finance, by no later than 5 pm on 27 March 2023, all documents relating to:

(a) the $1.456 million in discretionary payments from the Department of Finance to the Australian Labor Party in the 2021-22 financial year; and

(b) discretionary payments from the Department of Finance to the Australian Labor Party in the 2022-23 financial year to date.

3:47 pm

Photo of Anthony ChisholmAnthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | | Hansard source

by leave—Mr Deputy President, I ask that the government be recorded as opposing this motion.