Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Industry and Innovation) Share this | Hansard source

This government has complied with more orders for the production of documents in any one term than any Australian government ever. This includes, just yesterday, an order moved by Senator Bragg for a congratulatory letter. Mate, if you want a congratulatory letter, I'm sure I can organise one for you!

The one that Senator Payman refers to includes ministerial submissions, records of conversation, letters, briefing notes, meeting agendas, file notes, meeting invitations, meeting notes, meeting minutes, emails, instant messages and electronic messages. We have produced 3,995 pages worth of documents in Housing. That's more than three times longer than the full trilogy of The Lord of the Rings. It's about eight times as long as poor old Senator Bragg's last book—self-published no doubt!