Yes, Mr. Speaker, that is unfortunate.
This is a serious issue, I say to colleagues in the House, a serious issue about the nation's finance minister spending taxpayers' money to raise money for himself to win a leadership race. That is what it is about.
Surely the finance minister does not want questions of improper use of government money hanging around. Why will the finance minister not table a list of who Mr. Palmer contacted, how much money and where it came from for his own personal leadership race to try to become prime minister?