Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Special Minister of State) Share this | Hansard source

And some accountability. Why doesn’t someone stand up in this place today and say, ‘We are going to make sure that there is fair dinkum electoral donation and campaigning reform and we are going to support the coalition’s reference to the Joint Standing Committee on Electoral Matters’?

Let us have no more of your gross hypocrisy. If you want to play games, you are going to be caught out playing games. You have been caught out with the member for Flynn advertising in the paper. You prevaricated about it and called it a hypothetical. This is no hypothetical; this is absolutely real. Let us have some real answers to a real question about a real situation. Let us also have some acceptance of responsibility from those opposite so that, rather than talk about it, you actually do something about it. You have had three months to do something in relation to openness and transparency, and you have done nothing. (Time expired)