Bob Brown (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the minister for that information about this motion, but one of two things is happening here: either the information that this motion seeks to have released is publicly available, in which case I would have thought the government should have informed the mover, Senator Hanson-Young and/or the whips meeting that has been held in the interim; or the information is not available and the motion is very legitimate indeed. It cannot be both ways. I have not heard from the minister that the information on the release of the protocols is, in fact, complete and is on the public record. In the absence of that the motion has the requirement in it that the government proceed to release that information.

Question negatived.