Peter Georgiou (WA, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

My questions are for Senator Cash, who's representing the Minister for Home Affairs, Peter Dutton, in the Senate. In the past five federal budgets, the Commonwealth has provided $6.5 million in grant money to state police across Australia, none of which has been allocated to Western Australia. Furthermore, the federal government allocated $7.6 million in the 2016-17 budget to the New South Wales government to assist New South Wales police officers make voluntary superannuation contributions. Senator Cash, can you please explain why there is a financial disparity between police grants on the east and west coasts and whether efforts are underway to make it fairer?