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

If you're going to go down this road, do you want me to go through the list of former Labor ministers and prime ministers who were being investigated and didn't step aside? Do you really want me to go down that path? Really? Let's just remind ourselves. I think the media are well aware of the plethora of Labor ministers in the most recent government who were subject to investigations and stayed in their positions, including a Prime Minister. Let me just say that it's completely inappropriate for you to suggest that a minister should be stood aside on the basis of a politically motivated letter from a political opponent. That is not an appropriate basis. That should never become the trigger.