Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer to the minister's desperate attempt to distance himself personally from Mr Obeid and ask: is it correct that he was so keen to have Eddie Obeid on his frontbench that he voted for him not once but twice and sought to dump sitting frontbenchers to make way for him? How can the minister be treated internationally as a person of probity if he cannot tell the truth about his conduct as Premier of New South Wales?