Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party) Share this | Hansard source

I do remember her name, but I am not going to announce it. I will give you the initials: L.K. I do not want to denigrate people who are currently serving members of the AAT, nor do I want to go through a long list of Labor appointments of former Labor hacks, union hacks and people who were failed candidates—and you might well qualify yourself there, Senator Watt—to these positions. I will not dignify this debate by going through that; it does not serve the interests of justice and the important work that the AAT does.

I will mention the name of one former Labor parliamentarian, and that is the president of the AAT—none other than the honourable Duncan Kerr, who was, for many years, a member of the Labor Party in this parliament. But of course Senator Watt does not want to hear about this, so he will leave now when I tell him that the boss of the AAT, the president of the tribunal, is none other—