Helen Coonan (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Information Technology and the Arts) Share this | Hansard source

Briefly, I should say that the similarity with ATSB that I alluded to in my earlier comments was meant in the sense that, in that process, there is no blame. It is a no-blame inquiry process. The focus here is on making recommendations to improve transport security. That is the entire focus of it—not to attribute blame. To repeat my earlier assurance, if I could put it in those terms, the government has always taken the view that the Leader of the Opposition should be briefed on issues of national security. That position will continue, so far as this government is concerned, in relation to the matters that are the subject of this particular bill. The government is of the view that it adequately deals with the opposition’s view that the Leader of the Opposition should be briefed.

Question negatived.