Chris Ellison (WA, Liberal Party, Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

I note that Senator Sterle does not refer to those former Labor ministers that I mentioned earlier—for example, former Senator Graham Richardson to communications; John Button to a technology company after being minister for technology; and Ros Kelly to the environment, having been a former environment minister. What about John Kerin, who was a primary industries minister when he took up a job in forestry? I have outlined the probity issues that apply. I have taken the advice from my department, and I have set this before the Senate. The opposition are really grasping at straws, and they know it.