Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Independent) Share this | Hansard source

I just want to clarify something. When you decided to put this Henry VIII clause in, did Mr Harris—is that correct?—decide that he was going to do this? You didn't use somebody else? You didn't use any other recommendations from anyone else? You didn't go out and use somebody else? You didn't use a QC and hear what they had to say or anything like that? Did you simply use the department without going any further, as you would on most legislation—that's why the Department of Veterans' Affairs is in such a mess—and use no other expertise outside of the Department of Veterans' Affairs to decide on this matter?