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

Not only have I not seen that comment by Mr Christensen, but I have learnt through long experience in this chamber not to take at face value anything attributed to coalition members by Labor senators, because so often they—not necessarily you—are lying. Let me give you a couple more examples of claims made by the Queensland government which were not supported by any evidence whatsoever. Let us take the case of the Bluewater Trail and Queens Park redevelopment, a claim of $10 million. The Commonwealth agreed to fund the recovery where evidence was provided, and did so. The only shortfall of the $10 million claim was in respect of that part of the claim for which the Queensland government provided no evidence of damage, and the same applies to the Airlie Beach foreshore revitalisation. (Time expired)

I ask that further questions be placed on the Notice Paper.