Senate debates Questions without Notice
Howard Government: Expenditure
Nick Sherry Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Banking and Financial Services
2:59 pm
Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Can the minister confirm that, while the major $10 billion spending package on water policy had no cabinet scrutiny, the decision to spend $250,000 on a gold- and jewel-encrusted stagecoach for Her Majesty the Queen was fully considered by cabinet and after the Prime Minister’s intervention? Isn’t this just another example of a stale and tired government and a minister not ensuring due process for billions of dollars of policy expenditure?
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