Mr Tony Burke (Watson, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Minister for Social Services. I refer to the minister's previous answer. The WA Treasurer told his parliament:

We contacted the then Assistant Minister to the Prime Minister, Hon Christian Porter, who knows a lot about this issue.

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We put together the draft bill. We showed it to him and we showed it to the commonwealth. We got a letter from the commonwealth saying that it supported the action. We would not have proceeded without that support.

Why does the WA government provide a different account to what the minister just provided? Can the minister now outline his entire involvement in the Bell Group matter, which is the subject matter of his letter?

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