Richard Di Natale (Victoria, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

My question is to the Leader of the Government in the Senate, Senator Brandis. I refer to recent reports that on the day that Australia signed off on the China free trade agreement, Mr Huang Xiangmo paid $100,000 into trade minister Andrew Robb's personal campaign fund, the Bayside Forum. Was this conflict of interest raised to cabinet before or after the cabinet's deliberations over the China free trade agreement? And if not, does this not just reinforce the case for a national anticorruption watchdog?

Senator Wong interjecting—