Christopher Pyne (Sturt, Liberal Party, Leader of the House) Share this | Hansard source

Mr Speaker, I am really loath to take a point of order on the former Leader of the House, because I know how experienced he is in these matters, but there are of course many ways of obtaining a report. One of them of course is to make it a parliamentary paper, which connotes certain privileges to that paper. What the member for Grayndler needs to debate is why this should be made a parliamentary and what that means, rather than other methods of making reports part of the Hansard, for example, in terms of tabling them. He is not doing that. He is in fact talking to the substance of the motion and now trying to pretend that the government is hiding the report, when in fact we are making it a parliamentary paper so that it will not be hidden from anybody. Even the member for Grayndler would be able to find it.

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