Senate debates

Thursday, 12 September 2019

Questions without Notice

Member for Chisholm

2:04 pm

Photo of Mathias CormannMathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) | Hansard source

That is a disgraceful question. The member for Chisholm is absolutely suitable to be a member of this parliament, and she was elected as such by the people of Chisholm where she was facing a Labor candidate who equally was an Australian of Chinese descent and who was a member of similar organisations. Indeed, none other than the then shadow Treasurer accepted hospitality from the organisation that is supposedly now this major national security risk. This is a transparent Labor smear against a Liberal member of parliament in an electorate that—

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