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

I understand that Senator Milne may have had a little more to come in the question. I may need to take some of that on notice to ensure that we get a full reply to Senator Milne, dealing with the when and where issue. I already indicated that should the performance report be not too far away it will be able to made public, but I will certainly move to that. The only caveat I would place on that of course is whether or not it contains any commercial-in-confidence material—but that can always be dealt with in the usual course of events.

I want to indicate that, in terms of some of the language that Senator Milne used around the description of the particular industry bodies, I do not accept her characterisation and nor do I accept that I would describe them in that way. So I reject that imputation. (Time expired)