Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That the Senate take note of the documents.

Today the parliament received the five-volume report of the royal commission into the wheat for weapons scandal. It is interesting that the government in the Senate did not even bother to make a ministerial statement in this chamber. We can only imagine how long the report might have been if Commissioner Cole had been given full and adequate terms of reference by this government to examine the whole story that underlies the wheat for weapons scandal. Instead, the government has rorted the terms of reference and from the outset used the inquiry to deflect scrutiny from its negligence and incompetence.