Mark Bishop (WA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Defence Industry, Procurement and Personnel) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I wish to respond briefly to the remarks of the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Defence. While I had not asked any questions, the parliamentary secretary correctly identified the half a dozen issues that the opposition had been pursuing at the committee level, in contributions this evening on the Defence Legislation Amendment Bill 2006 and, I suspect, in contributions on the bill in the other house the other month. I thank him and his advisers for having taken the trouble to prepare notes to put on the record some responses to those half a dozen issues of interest. I undertake to give consideration to those responses over the next few days.

Question agreed to.

Bill read a second time.