Larissa Waters (Queensland, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I take the senator's contribution that Minister Taylor has tabled relevant documents. If that's the case, then there's a three-year-old letter that he's relying on as the basis for his meeting three years later, and there's a letter that was sent six months after the meeting in question. If they are the only relevant documents, then I'm afraid Minister Taylor has really shot himself in the foot by demonstrating that, in fact, there was no constituent correspondence to justify him meeting with then environment Minister Frydenberg, apparently on the basis of constituent concern.

I would hope that there was further constituent correspondence, which is exactly why we've moved this order for production of documents. We want to see this so-called correspondence. If it really is only a letter that was sent to him three years prior and a letter that was sent to him six months after, then what a coincidence that a day after he was sued for breaching environmental laws he sought a meeting as a cabinet minister with his fellow cabinet minister. I urge the chamber to support this OPD.

Question agreed to.