Senators grilled ministers and public service officials on day two of Senate estimates as Agriculture, Infrastructure, Finance and Attorney-General's portfolios were up for hearings.
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The government spent the first day of estimates defending itself from questioning about Barnaby Joyce's leaked criticisms of the Prime Minister, and in the Home Affairs portfolio, it emerged a Home Affairs Department decision to hire 19 holiday rentals for quarantining government officials earned a senior official nearly $16,000 from the deal.
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