House debates Questions without Notice

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Tuesday, 13 February 2007 House of Representatives

Lindsay Tanner

Lindsay Tanner Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance

2:32 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. While gifts of royal carriages to the Queen have occurred in the past under governments of both persuasions, why did the funding of a private gift to the Queen of a gold encrusted, horsedrawn carriage with ducted heating and diamond-set door handles require cabinet approval, but your $10 billion proposal to take over the Murray-Darling Basin from the states did not?

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