Finance Minister Katy Gallagher and opposition spokesperson for finance, Jane Hume, clash in Senate estimates over the Workplace Gender Equality Agency.
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00:00I think you should just be up front about what you're doing here.
00:03You used to support WGEA, now you don't support WGEA, and that's where this is heading.
00:07Are you afraid of transparency?
00:09I'm not afraid. It's very transparent.
00:11Why are you arcing up about this?
00:12I'm not sitting here smirching the work that WGEA does.
00:17Because of the location of WGEA. She said that it was really hard to recruit people to Sydney CBD.
00:23Because of the cost of living crisis.
00:27So I'm just wondering.
00:29I just think you should be up front about what you're doing here.
00:31You're opposed to legislation in the Senate.
00:33After 40 years of supporting this, you're turning your back on it.
00:36So let's just be up front about that.
00:38Don't pretend that it's something about a lease cost.
00:41That's just what we want to do.
00:42What are you afraid of, Minister?
00:45Senator Hume is just asking questions.
00:48You don't need to run interference, Senator McGrath.
00:51I'm not running interference.
00:52Senator Hume can look after herself.
00:53I don't understand why voices are being raised.
00:55When Senator Hume is asking some very factual questions here,
00:58she doesn't need your protection, Senator McGrath.
01:00She certainly doesn't need my protection.
01:02But I'm concerned that the taxpayers of Australia would like to get answers to the questions.
01:06Well, they have the answers and it's all reported in the annual report.
01:09What's happening here is there's an attempt to besmirch the work that WGEA is doing.
01:15That is not true.
01:16Will you oppose the legislation in the Senate?
01:19You did.
01:21After 40 years of backing it, you are now a crab walking away.
01:25That's what's happening here.
01:26Let's be upfront about what you and your leader are doing here.
01:30I'm really giving it a good crack at asking some questions of WGEA
01:33and essentially the minister is just filling the vacuum with noise.