QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Ms LEY (Farrer—Leader of the Opposition) (14:10): My question is to the Prime Minister. Australians rely on the government to confidently and competently advocate for our national interest. But, yesterday, the trade minister seemed to be hallucinating on national TV when he invented a conversation between the US president and the Prime Minister about beef.

How can Labor be trusted to secure tariff exemptions when the trade minister confuses a public statement from the president with a leader-to-leader phone call that never happened? Mr Mitchell interjecting— The SPEAKER: The member for McEwen is warned.