Senate debates Committees

Department of Finance: Discretionary Payments; Order for the Production of Documents


Malcolm Roberts

Malcolm Roberts Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party

3:46 pm

I move:

That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Finance, by no later than 5 pm on 27 March 2023, all documents relating to:

(a) the $1.456 million in discretionary payments from the Department of Finance to the Australian Labor Party in the 2021-22 financial year; and

(b) discretionary payments from the Department of Finance to the Australian Labor Party in the 2022-23 financial year to date.

Anthony Chisholm

Anthony Chisholm Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education

3:47 pm

by leave—Mr Deputy President, I ask that the government be recorded as opposing this motion.