George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Singh, not an hour and a half ago you voted in this chamber to have a six-week-long inquiry into this issue on the heels of the 2½-month-long inquiry in which your Labor Party colleagues recently participated. Since you want to have a second, six-week-long, parliamentary inquiry on the heels of a 2½-month-long parliamentary inquiry into this very issue, I am very surprised to hear you say now in your question that this is not an issue that matters. As I said to you in answer to your earlier questions, we do not put this at the top of the list. We put jobs, we put infrastructure, we put prosperity, we put energy security, we put getting the budget back under control there. All of those issues are far more important. All of those issues are issues on which we inherited a mess from you. But, nevertheless, there are other issues that deserves some attention, and this is one. (Time expired)