Joe Ludwig (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Manager of Opposition Business in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Minister, for that answer. So, as I understand it—I did not want to put words in the department’s mouth—there is also no record as to whether the reasons were reduced to writing prior to the examination. Or can you say that the ACC can confidently say that, for every one of the examinations by an examiner that took place, the reasons were already written down so that they were there for the usual challenges, I guess, based on the reasons themselves, subject of course to the matters being argued or brought before a court in respect of some matter about the reasons themselves?