Senator CONROY (2:52 PM) —My question is to Senator Coonan, the Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer. Does the minister recall that in September last year the Prime Minister committed to releasing the Taxation Office audit report into the GST scam by the Queensland division of the Liberal Party? Why has this report not been released when it was completed in October last year? Is he trying to cover up, for instance, the fact that the tax avoided by the Queensland division was $13,312, not $180 as claimed by the Liberal Party; or is it to cover up the 50 per cent penalty tax imposed by the ATO, showing the lie of the government's claim that the whole thing was a simple error? Is this not just another cover-up of the Liberal Party scamming its own GST?

Government senators interjecting—

Senator COONAN (Minister for Revenue and Assistant Treasurer) —The biggest scam we have seen recently is with the Labor Party's rorting of Centenary House. Senator Conroy has asked this question in estimates, and he has received an unequivocal answer that the report does contain some information about some individual taxpayers. The Commissioner for Taxation has taken the question of whether or not the report can be released by the commissioner on notice.

Opposition senators interjecting—

The PRESIDENT —Order! I call Senator Lees.

The PRESIDENT —You are too late. You were sitting shouting across the chamber in a disorderly fashion at a time that you may have risen, and I have called Senator Lees.