Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Veterans' Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Parliamentary Secretary, on that basis why would you not wait until policy guidance work had been done by Repat and then the department and why wouldn't you wait until you had had the consultation with the ex-service organisations during the development of the material and then have the schedule? Is that not the logical step? You are going to put the cart before the horse by having the schedule and then trying to address it later on. You have acknowledged that there is no urgency for this and that the process is going to be addressed by the $2.7 million. I ask this question: would you give the ex-service organisations an undertaking that if, as it says here, 'ex-service organisations will be consulted during the development of this material'—that is the appropriate policy guidance—and they are opposed to that material it will not become policy under this addendum to the explanatory memorandum?