Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the minister representing the Prime Minister, Senator Abetz. I refer to the article by Ms Niki Savva in today's Australian, which reveals the internal chaos and confusion around the Prime Minister's office briefing of the media on the $7 GP tax. Can the minister confirm that the Prime Minister did not know his own office had briefed the media that the GP tax was dead? Can the minister further confirm that the Prime Minister called him the next morning before the minister's radio interview to say that nothing had changed and that the briefings from the PMO were 'unauthorised'?