Senate debates

Thursday, 10 September 2009

Questions without Notice

Asylum Seekers

3:06 pm

Photo of John FaulknerJohn Faulkner (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

Yes, I am in the process of doing so. What I will do, because of the constraints placed by you, Senator Ferguson, on answers by ministers to important questions like the one that you have just asked, is ensure that, after question time, I take the opportunity to fully report to the Senate on this matter. I want to inform the Senate that, in response to CDF’s contact, the coroner advised that, although a decision on the release of the material was a matter for defence, his preference was that the material not be released before the start of the inquest. I then sought legal advice on this issue. I will, after question time, report to the Senate on the advice I have received today.

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