George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

This remains registered on the register, and that fact has been publicly known since it was exposed in May of last year. The leader of the government, the Prime Minister, must be taken to know what is on the public register.

I have in this contribution avoided the subject of Senator Bob Carr's shepherding and fostering of the political career of Australia's most corrupt politician, Mr Eddie Obeid, because this is a new and even more disturbing matter. For a senior member of the Australian cabinet—