Tim Wilson

tim: In September Geoff Wilson boasted to investors that he had asked Tim Wilson, who chairs the House economics committee, to schedule inquiry hearings alongside Wilson Asset Management roadshow events to help investors protest against Labor's policy, according to The Guardian. Tim Wilson's franking credits roadshow gets elderly audience fired up Read more Burke questioned whether Tim Wilson had organised the committee's hearing schedule and locations at the behest of a person with a vested interest in the inquiry . This also raises the question as to whether the actions of the chair amount to an improper interference with the free exercise of his own committee's authority or functions, such as to constitute a contempt of the house, he said. On Wednesday Tony Burke, the manager of opposition business, asked the speaker, Tony Smith, to give precedence to a motion to refer Wilson, questioning whether he had harmed the dignity of the parliament and its committee system . Tim Wilson authorised a partisan website by Geoff Wilson, his first-cousin, once-removed, which garners submissions opposed to Labor's policy and signs submitters up to a Wilson Asset Management petition. Tim Wilson declared on the pecuniary interest register that he is a shareholder in two funds managed by Wilson Asset Management but failed to make a declaration in public hearings, including the 30 November hearing at which Geoff Wilson gave evidence. He questioned whether Tim Wilson had breached standing orders that no member may sit on a committee if he or she has a particular direct pecuniary interest in the matter under inquiry. Burke suggested that given Tim Wilson's shareholding through his self-managed superannuation fund, he may be impacted by the very policy his committee is inquiring into in his retirement. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.