Finance Department questioned on The Lodge renovations at estimates hearing

By Phillip Thomson
Updated March 27 2015 - 10:23am, first published May 30 2014 - 3:55pm
The Lodge in Canberra. Photo by Gerrit Fokkema. SMH DOMAIN 041007
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The Lodge in Canberra. Photo by Gerrit Fokkema. SMH DOMAIN 041007 NO CAPTION INFORMATION PROVIDED

The Department of Finance executive who told a staff member to deliberately give a journalist "vague" information about renovations at The Lodge says it "was not my finest moment".