Doug Cameron (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Human Services) Share this | Hansard source

Well, that's pretty pathetic from the Attorney-General. Senator Birmingham raised this point across the chamber. Answers to these questions are two months overdue. The response from the minister was pretty pathetic—he gets a lot of questions. Which minister would not get lots of questions through the estimates process? That's what the estimates process is for: to ask questions and get responses within a laid-down time frame. This minister has failed to meet that. There are not only the questions that I've put forward here today; there are 88 questions in total that remain unanswered that I asked the minister. The minister has a battalion of public servants to help him respond to these questions.