Lindsay Tanner Melbourne, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Finance
2:32 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. While gifts of royal carriages to the Queen have occurred in the past under governments of both persuasions, why did the funding of a private gift to the Queen of a gold encrusted, horsedrawn carriage with ducted heating and diamond-set door handles require cabinet approval, but your $10 billion proposal to take over the Murray-Darling Basin from the states did not?
John Howard Bennelong, Liberal Party, Prime Minister
It is an interesting change in questions, Mr Speaker. I can say that appropriate processes were followed in both cases.