Alannah Mactiernan (Perth, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister. Will the Prime Minister release the Commission of Audit report before the Western Australian Senate election?

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question. I can assure the member for Perth that the Commission of Audit report will be released. It will be released when the government has properly considered it, and the government is in the course of properly considering it as we speak. I point out to the member for Perth—

Opposition Members:

Opposition members interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! There will be quiet on my left.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

that we have received but the interim report of the Commission of Audit. We expect to receive further reports from the Commission of Audit in the weeks ahead. But the job of government is not to bombard people with paper.

Opposition members interjecting—

Mrs Bronwyn Bishop (Speaker) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Order! There will be silence on my left.

Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

It is to commission appropriate reports, appropriate investigations and appropriate studies, to consider them carefully and to release them at the appropriate time.