Stephen Conroy (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

This is a very serious accusation being made by Senator Minchin so I want to make it very, very clear: I utterly reject your allegation and for the following reasons. I know that Senator Minchin enjoyed the portfolio and that he had other things on his mind. On 9 April last year, we revealed the secret that the evaluation panel recommended no-one was value for money. It has taken nearly nine months for you to allege that what I said in February of last year was misleading the parliament. Now either it was a serious mislead nine months ago and you were not paying attention, or you are simply so empty—