Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Minister for Fisheries, Forestry and Conservation) Share this | Hansard source

The honourable senator can use rhetorical flourishes to try to beat this issue up but Mr Besley’s letter is somewhat different. In it he refers to ‘factually incomplete’ as opposed to ‘misleading’. There is no doubt that Mr Besley reconsidered his evidence after Senate estimates—and I indicate that all honourable senators know that it is not uncommon for witnesses before Senate estimates or indeed other Senate committees, on reflection, to note that they have given incomplete information.