MP’s business questions

AUSTRALIA’S corporate watchdog plans to inquire into the business affairs of Queensland Liberal National Party MP Stuart Robert.

Fairfax Media has reported the federal MP’s father Alan Robert was not aware he was a director of a private investment company that held shares in his son’s computer service which had millions of dollars in government contracts.

Mr Robert said the private investment company Robert International had been run by his son during the six-year period he and his wife Dorothy were the company’s only directors.

The Australian Securities and Investments Commission, told a parliamentary economics committee hearing in Canberra yesterday the watchdog would make inquiries.