Tony Abbott (Warringah, Liberal Party, Leader of the Opposition) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

My question is to the Prime Minister, and it is in order to clear up the confusion caused by the Minister for Immigration and Citizenship's last answer. On what date did the minister for immigration first indicate to the Prime Minister or her office, not in a detailed brief but in general terms, that the minister intended to approve the Roy Hill agreement?

Julia Gillard (Lalor, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

In relation to the Leader of the Opposition's question, the situation here is perfectly clear. As the minister for immigration indicated yesterday, he made a brief available to my office on this matter early last week—that is, the week starting 21 May—and I was fully briefed on my return from Chicago, which happened on Wednesday.