David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

Mr President, I ask a supplementary question. I refer the minister to the fact that then Attorney-General Robert McClelland and then Minister for Defence Senator Faulkner announced on 25 May 2010 that it was anticipated that the new court would commence operation in late 2011. Has the relationship between the Minister for Defence and the Defence hierarchy broken down to such an extent that this minister is incapable of even getting this legislation onto the Notice Paper and into the parliament?