Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Assistant Treasurer) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a further supplementary question. Does the minister deny that she received a verbal recommendation from Mr Gonski? And, given that Mr Gonski's two-page memo about the appointment of the next chair of the Future Fund to the Department of Finance and Deregulation has been given to a journalist at the Australian Financial Review to read, why should the Senate and the public at large not be entitled to read it?