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

My question is to the Minister for Human Services. I refer to the minister's previous answer on the Parkinson inquiry. Has the minister informed the Parkinson inquiry that when he wrote to the former Prime Minister applying for personal leave for his trip to China he did not inform him that he would attend a signing ceremony between Nimrod Resources and a Chinese state-owned corporation or that he would meet with the Chinese Vice Minister for Land and Resources accompanied by Nimrod Resources executives? Is the minister aware that his previous answer does not answer this question? (Time expired)

Honourable Members:

Honourable members interjecting—

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

The member for Aston will cease interjecting. The member for Lyons will cease interjecting. I remind him that he was warned yesterday. It carries over.

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

I thank the member for his question and I refer the member to my previous answer.