Christian Porter (Pearce, Liberal Party, Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

It is in an organisational chart but that is not conducted. There are two white papers being conducted under the auspices of Prime Minister and Cabinet—a tax white paper and a federation white paper. Some stewardship on tax is devolved to me and some stewardship on federation to my friend the parliamentary secretary. But matters with respect to the agricultural white paper are not in the auspices of the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet.

From time to time, of course, white paper processes are elongated beyond original estimates. Particularly, very often—and this is something I think was noticed in the tax white paper—the sheer volume of submissions that are received, and the desire by people to submit further but have been unable to submit within the existing time frame, means that sometimes those time frames are elongated. That is something that would have to be directed towards the agriculture minister.

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