Senate debates

Thursday, 2 October 2014

Questions without Notice

Australian War Memorial

2:01 pm

Photo of Michael RonaldsonMichael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

I can only assume that Senator Conroy bought some fish and chips over the weekend, because, quite frankly, this was in the papers about three weeks ago. He is hardly on top of his brief if he has had to wait this amount of time. Let me be absolutely clear about our relationship with the Australian War Memorial and then I will compare it with that of the Australian Labor Party, who had put the AWM under such pressure that they were considering closing the memorial—a national icon in this country—for one day a week.

Senator Kim Carr interjecting—

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