Senate debates

Tuesday, 5 September 2023

Questions without Notice

Government Accountability

2:45 pm

Photo of Penny WongPenny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Foreign Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

My point is: because we have changed one part of the program—frankly, because it was being utilised in a way that the Senate had not envisaged—we are now seeing a substantial increase in terms of OPDs. Was it 10 today? If those opposite and those on the crossbench wish to use OPDs in that way, so be it. We will provide the information we are able to, and, obviously, information we are not able to provide will not be provided. Again, Senator Babet, I would have thought that we remember what Mr Morrison was like and we remember the lack of accountability to parliament and even to his own cabinet colleagues, when he took their jobs without telling them. (Time expired)

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