Mark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is again to the Minister for Human Services. I refer to the minister's trip to China and his statement to the House: that he was in China in August 2014 in a personal capacity. But today, the Australian Financial Review reports that on the same trip the minister attended a Nimrod Resources signing ceremony. The minister also met with China's Vice Minister of Land and Resources. Did the minister meet with China's Vice Minister of Land and Resources as a private citizen?

Nick Champion (Wakefield, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It sounds like a terrible holiday!

Tony Smith (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The member for Wakefield!

Stuart Robert (Fadden, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Let me thank the member for his question and I refer the member to my previous statement.