Michael Keenan (Stirling, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services and Digital Transformation) Share this | Hansard source

As I said, I'm very happy to continue to take a lot of questions on this. I understand question time has been extended, and I'm very happy to continue discussing what I know about this matter, which is quite a lot, actually! And I know a lot about political investigations in this place, and, when I was justice minister, I was responsible for overseeing many of them. We always knew how to deal with information in relation to those particularly sensitive cases. And what could be more sensitive than wrongdoing by the man who wants to be the Prime Minister of Australia? What could be more sensitive than that? When he was running the AWU—and this is what the police were investigating—there are allegations that union members' money was used in a cavalier fashion—given out to GetUp!, given out to his own campaign fund—and he has never once taken the opportunity to actually say why he won't allow that evidence to be examined by the police. Those are not the actions of somebody that doesn't have anything to hide.

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