Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I note Senator Minchin’s loyalty to a friend and major Liberal Party fundraiser, but is it really the case that Senator Santoro’s failure to properly reflect his share earnings is an apt description of what has occurred? Isn’t it really a trivialisation of the massive serial misleading of the Senate by the declarations made by Senator Santoro? What does it say about the government’s standards if you are to trivialise these matters in this way? Do you not think that the community expects higher standards of behaviour from Liberal Party senators?