Barry O'Sullivan (Queensland, National Party) Share this | Hansard source

I would suggest through you, Mr Acting Deputy President, that Senator Waters takes it up with the staff at Hansard, because I have quoted from the Hansard record of the event today. Had the good senator taken the time, as many Australians do, to conduct a search online free of charge at the Electoral Commission of Queensland—available also to all other Queensland senators, if they were to take the time to do due diligence on these allegations—she would have found that the $90,000 that she alleged was received corruptly by the Premier in exchange for favours was in fact the value of a third-party campaign. The campaign was conducted by the company in response to a campaign that was conducted in part by the Queensland Conservation Council. There is an interesting connection. The campaign was conducted by the Conservation Council in the seat of Ashgrove in relation to sand mining. The good Senator has a very close connection with the Queensland Conservation Council. That should come as no surprise. I have done my homework. I am happy to give you these documents, and you can speak to them if you wish. The Queensland Conservation Council is one of 66 member bodies of the Environmental Defenders Office, where the good senator was employed. In fact, two of the board members are co-candidates for the Green party in the state of Queensland.

Senator Waters interjecting—

Senator Waters, you should sit quietly and listen and learn about what a little bit of investigation and due diligence can do, because it will always, as sunlight does on moss, bring out the truth in the fullness of time.