House debates Statements on Indulgence

Australia's Seat on the United Nations Security Council

Tuesday, 30 October 2012 House of Representatives

Teresa Gambaro

Teresa Gambaro Brisbane, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Citizenship and Settlement

6:48 pm

A critical question—I thank the member for Kooyong—that Australian taxpayers really need to ask is: how is Australia's foreign aid objectives and our foreign aid priorities being advanced by some of these notable recent expenditures? I just want to take you through some of these expenditures: $150,000 for a statue to commemorate antislavery in the Caribbean and Africa to be built in the UN Plaza in New York.

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