Richard Colbeck (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Aged Care and Senior Australians) Share this | Hansard source

If you look at the numbers in the report—and I just mentioned them a moment ago in my previous answer—Senator McKenzie's decisions actually brought the allocation of grants closer towards the proportion of seats that Labor had to what they would have had had the original process of assessment been carried out. Senator McKenzie's decisions increased the number of grants in Labor seats from 26 per cent to 34 per cent, and Labor held 35 per cent of the seats.