• Liberal Party Senator for Victoria
• Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate (since 14 Sep 2010)
  Shadow Minister for Disabilities, Carers and the Voluntary Sector (since 14 Sep 2010)
• Became a Senator on 31 March 2004
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Questions without Notice: Budget (15 May 2013)

“I would have thought that question time on the day after the budget was exactly the forum to ask questions of this nature. Let me put it another way to the minister: is it not the case that money, including the so-called saves that I referred to before, is fungible and the only funding that is guaranteed for the NDIS will be the hypothecated levy funds? Is it not also true that the levy funds...”

Questions without Notice: Budget (15 May 2013)

“Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. At the end of that answer the minister referred to the other long-term savings, which is actually the matter of the primary question. If the minister is unable to disaggregate those other long-term savings, perhaps she could just give me a total figure for the period 2012-13 to 2022-23. Perhaps she could give me that headline figure.”

Questions without Notice: Budget (15 May 2013)

“Mr President, a point of order on relevance: I have taken a while and let the clock run down because I was hoping that the minister would get to the substantive answer to my question, which was very specific. It related to the category termed 'Other long-term savings' in the graph on page 4 of the document to which I referred, which has a subcategory 'Selected long-term savings from 2013-14...”

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• Has spoken in 75 debates in the last year — above average amongst Senators.
• People have made 2 comments on this Senator's speeches — average amongst Senators.
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• Has used three-word alliterative phrases (e.g. "she sells seashells") 315 times in debates — above average amongst Senators. (Why is this here?)