QUESTIONS WITHOUT NOTICE

Senator FARRELL (South Australia—Minister for Trade and Tourism, Special Minister of State and Deputy Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:03): Thank you, Senator Cash, for your second supplementary question. In my experience, the Prime Minister always tells the truth. When I make a mistake, Senator Cash, I own up.

I come clean. I realised my mistake. I corrected it as quickly as I could.

If other journalists rang me, I corrected it with them. I made a mistake, I've corrected it, and that's, as far as I'm concerned, the end of the matter.