House debates Questions without Notice

Secretary-General of the United Nations

Monday, 2 May 2016 House of Representatives

Tanya Plibersek

Tanya Plibersek Sydney, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition

3:05 pm

My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister join with the opposition today on a bipartisan basis and support the nomination of an Australian candidate for the position of Secretary-General of the United Nations?

Malcolm Turnbull

Malcolm Turnbull Wentworth, Liberal Party, Prime Minister

There are 24 million Australians, and what the honourable member has omitted to mention is the name of the person she is actually proposing. I suspect it is somebody whose deficiencies she has set out in great detail at various times. In the event of this matter becoming a live one, certainly the cabinet will consider it and give it due attention.