House debates Questions without Notice
Special Minister of State
Mark Dreyfus Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General
2:43 pm
My question is to the Special Minister of State. I refer to the minister's responsibility for the Members of Parliament (Staff) Act. As a matter of government policy, does the minister ask the Australian Federal Police to investigate when staff members employed under that act provide unauthorised access to a member of parliament's official diary?
Mal Brough Fisher, Liberal Party, Special Minister of State
2:44 pm
I can inform the honourable member that that occasion has not arisen so I have not had the opportunity to discuss that—
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