Glenn Sterle (WA, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. Does the minister know whether the Treasurer’s desire for a taxpayer funded home is a reflection on his current housemates, Senator Colbeck and Senator Mason? Has the Treasurer simply decided that if he cannot destroy the Prime Minister as he says he wants to then he will accept a taxpayer funded house as a consolation prize? Does the minister believe that someone who said he would carp at Howard’s leadership from the backbench until he destroyed it and won the leadership deserves a taxpayer funded house?