Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the House) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

That so much of the standing and sessional orders be suspended as would prevent the House from noting with alarm that the Attorney-General has refused to provide details of the secret taxpayer funded political unit operation out of his ministerial office at 70 Phillip Street, Sydney, including:

(1)

the date of the secret unit’s establishment;

(2)

the annual cost to taxpayers of the secret unit’s operation;

(3)

the secret unit’s full staffing arrangements;

(4)

the secret unit’s reporting arrangements;

(5)

the function of the secret unit including its monitoring of non-government media comment and other activities;

(6)

the relationship between the secret unit and the taxpayer funded government members secretariat—

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