Yesterday the Joint Committee of Public Accounts and Audit released a letter from the Auditor-General alleging that I had contravened the Commonwealth's grant guidelines by failing to notify the Minister for Finance and Deregulation that I had approved 10 grants to organisations in my electorate. These claims were also reported in today's media.

One of these was to the Children's Protection Society, a child welfare organisation that provides support and counselling to children in crisis and their families.

Opposition members interjecting—