Kim Carr (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Housing and Urban Development) Share this | Hansard source

Could I ask, Mr Temporary Chairman, at what point are we actually going to have an amendment moved? This is entertaining and I appreciate that the government has such a poor record to defend here that its defences should be so weak. The minister says that he is a consultative minister. I note in the paper this morning that he said he personally was a consultative minister. I noticed this article in the paper this morning:

Two peak visual arts bodies have attacked federal arts minister Rod Kemp for giving a $2 million artist training contract to the Australia Business Arts Foundation without a tender.