Barnaby Joyce (New England, National Party, Leader of the Nationals) Share this | Hansard source

I take the interjection. I heard them mentioning Sam Dastyari. Of course, they would be mentioning him, wouldn't they? Because the biggest thing that happened to the Labor Party in the last week is they lost one of their frontbenchers. Apparently he was kind of a frontbencher. He was sort of on loan or something! He did not quite make the grade as far as salary goes. He had a bit of a problem and came up with a novel way to pay his bill. But apparently the member for Maribyrnong said there was no problem there. He had a long conversation with him: 'Nothing to see here. No problem at all.' 'No problem at all,' they said—except that Senator Sam Dastyari thought there was a problem! They have gone very silent now, haven't they? We look forward to the member for Maribyrnong explaining to us exactly how this came about. But I think we will be waiting a while. (Time expired)

Mr Snowdon interjecting —

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