Scott Ryan (Victoria, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. I note, in the preface to this question, that it was the Prime Minister himself who corrected the record about the involvement of staff in this process. Given that our micromanaging Prime Minister apparently does not know what his personal staff are doing on an issue of such national significance, can the minister tell the Senate what obligations ministerial staff have to bring their own activities to the attention of their ministers? In particular, has any member of the Prime Minister’s staff being counselled in relation to their failure to tell the Prime Minister about their involvement in developing this special deal as other members of his staff and, indeed, members on that side of the House, have been counselled in the past?