Bob Baldwin (Paterson, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Science and Personnel) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question without notice is to the Minister for Defence. Given the minister’s obligation under the standards of ministerial ethics set down by the Prime Minister in December 2007, I refer to his press conference on 27 March this year, when he said:

I have obviously gone through my past details over the course of the last 24 hours and I’m absolutely confident that I’ve now disclosed everything that was necessary to be disclosed.

As the minister confessed late last night to yet another breach of ministerial standards, through his failure to disclose free hospitality in Brisbane on 11 June last year, will the minister confirm to this House that he has now disclosed absolutely everything necessary to be disclosed?

Joel Fitzgibbon (Hunter, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I made a full statement to the House on these matters last night, and I simply refer the honourable member to that statement.