Malcolm Turnbull (Wentworth, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, on indulgence, the minister has invited me to confirm that we have had private conversations. It is true, we have. And he gave the same elaborate bureaucratic justification for not delivering any action in the private conversation. I should add that in a private conversation with a Woollahra councillor he said to that Woollahra councillor, ‘The reason the funding is not available is because it is in the electorate of Wentworth.’

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