Concetta Fierravanti-Wells (NSW, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Special Minister of State, Senator Faulkner. I refer to the minister’s answer yesterday where he informed the Senate that the government staffing committee has suspended its investigation into the CMAX affair and his undertaking that the government would fully cooperate with the Auditor-General’s investigation. Given that in his correspondence of 20 August 2008 the Auditor-General wrote:

The audit will have regard to the outcome of the review being undertaken by the Government Staffing Committee in respect of the engagement process—

I ask the minister: has the government deliberately suspended the inquiry to frustrate the Auditor-General’s investigation?