Senate debates Documents

Major and Local Community Infrastructure Program; Order for the Production of Documents


Murray Watt

Murray Watt Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for the Environment and Water

10:30 am

I don't know whether Senator Henderson heard Senator McKenzie's contribution, but, if you want to talk about reflections on people, have a look at the reflections made by your colleague in her entire contribution.

As I was saying, I am still really surprised that even today in the chamber, of all opposition senators, it's Senator McKenzie who's leading the charge on this matter. Any rational person, if they ran sports rorts, would want to pretend that that had never happened, but Senator McKenzie wants to keep bobbing up, reminding us that she was the person who led the sports rorts. She had to resign because of sports rorts, yet she has the hide to come in here and try to lecture our government about proper procedure when it comes to grants rounds, not having followed any of that procedure when she was the minister herself. I mean, the thing that Senator McKenzie is best known for in her entire contribution to parliament over her long career is sports rorts, and yet she wants to come in here, remind everyone about that, and then challenge us when we're the government that's following every single guideline—

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