Senator FIERRAVANTI-WELLS (New South Wales) (14:51): My question is to the Minister representing the Prime Minister and Minister for Tertiary Education, Skills, Jobs and Workplace Relations, Senator Evans. Is the minister aware of reports in Friday's Sydney Morning Herald that Craig Thomson, whilst travelling in Melbourne on union business, made three separate phone calls to three different escort agencies, called Young Blondes, Confidential Models and Bad Girls? Does the minister believe it to be appropriate that a union leader travelling on union business should be making telephone calls to escorts on his hotel room account funded by the union?
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