Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary for Northern and Remote Australia) Share this | Hansard source

Okay, I will seek your protection, Madam Chair. Thank you very much. Senator Sherry seems incapable or in the typical Labor way just does not want to answer the difficult questions. Senator Xenophon referred earlier to a letter he said he had from Ms Gillard. He clearly knew what it was about and Ms Gillard and her minions here on the government benches and the Greens will know what that was about. I was wondering if Senator Xenophon could explain to the Senate the import of that assurance from the Prime Minister. What was in that assurance that assuaged Senator Xenophon’s very genuine concerns about the lack of insurance taken out by the state government in Queensland?