Page 175 - Week 01 - Wednesday, 15 February 2012
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MR HANSON: Minister, does your office telephone number divert to a mobile phone number?
DR BOURKE: Could I have the question again, please, Mr Hanson?
Mr Hanson: I am asking whether the office phone number that you have as a point of contact diverts to a mobile phone or whether it goes to message bank, to clarify the point there. Does it divert to a mobile phone?
DR BOURKE: I thank the member for his question. I have not exactly investigated the options for telephone routing in my office. I do know that we have cards on which we have our mobile numbers and our office numbers.
Australia Day—protest
MR HANSON: My question is to the minister for Indigenous affairs. Yesterday you refused to answer a number of questions about your office’s involvement in the protest at the Lobby Restaurant on Australia Day, and in fact continually referred to a scripted statement relating to events surrounding Australia Day. Yesterday you said that your office had received a telephone call from the Prime Minister’s office. Minister, did the Prime Minister’s office contact your office landline or a staff member’s mobile phone?
DR BOURKE: I thank the member for his question. I presume it was a mobile.
MR SPEAKER: Mr Hanson, a supplementary.
MR HANSON: Did the Prime Minister’s office contact your media adviser as listed on the press releases?
DR BOURKE: I thank the member for his question but I am not going to work through the members of my office in a game of 20 questions to work out where you want to go. I am not going to divulge names of people in my office.
MRS DUNNE: Supplementary question, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, did you personally speak with your staff member before the Prime Minister’s office was referred to Ms Sattler?
DR BOURKE: I refer to my answer yesterday: no.
MRS DUNNE: Supplementary question, Mr Speaker.
MR SPEAKER: Yes, Mrs Dunne.
MRS DUNNE: Minister, did the Prime Minister’s office contact your senior adviser responsible for Indigenous affairs?
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