Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Deputy Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

If the minister is not going to give Senator Xenophon the courtesy of an answer, I commend Senator Xenophon for at least providing us with more information on this issue than the minister himself was prepared to give the Senate. It just shows the sort of contempt with which Senator Conroy and the Labor Party are treating this Senate. They will provide secret information to Independent senators, but when similar questions are asked by opposition senators in the open forum—