Scott Morrison (Cook, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

and the Prime Minister's Office complied with all requests of the secretary. What I can go back to, just to highlight again what the Auditor-General said about the matters that the Leader of the Opposition is raising—

Opposition members interjecting—

Settle down! Settle down! What he said was: 'For us to see that there was some driver, in this, that we would have to identify, in those representations, there was a bias, there was a correlation between what in those representations and what was the outcome'—he, the Auditor-General, said: 'We didn't see that.' The Auditor-General has been quizzed on these very matters, and he has found no correlation, from the representations that were made from my office, with these outcomes. So the Leader of the Opposition is trying to throw mud while he himself sits in an absolute swamp. We know the Leader of the Opposition had a spreadsheet in his office, when he ran a similar program, which had a column on it that said: 'Labor or Liberal'. That's what he had. And then he threw the rulebook away and gave the money to the projects he wanted to.

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