Mal Brough (Longman, Liberal Party, Minister Assisting the Prime Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I could not comment on the second one; I simply do not know. But I would say to you that, if there are any issues around their capacity to tender for other business, that is something they can take up directly with the department. This is a very large project—$1.1 billion—and probity is very important. Of course, you would not want to compromise that and have it dragged through the courts inappropriately, through inadvertently providing information or doing something outside of that. So I am sure that they are following all the due processes in making sure that this particular process is protected, in the interests of all Australian taxpayers.

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