Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

I look forward to the minister’s response. We would have been happy, as we have been, Senator Patterson, to wait for the minister to get advice. But, at the time, the question was being put and the minister had his back to the chamber. I appreciate that he has to get advice. But the point is that we on this side of the chamber do have a view that this is an important issue for the children concerned. The issues that were placed onto the Hansard by Senator Siewert do deserve a response.