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

You are here on behalf of the government, Senator Feeney. You are also the Parliamentary Secretary for Defence. We have been debating this since 10 o'clock this morning. Do not tell me, when you have got one of the minister's advisers sitting beside you, that you cannot give this chamber an answer to a very simple question. Were they provided with it or not? How does it take three hours to ascertain whether the RSL has been given a copy of this? The longer you drag this out, the more obvious I think the response is. If they have not, just say, 'No, they have not been' and then I will make the comment that they should have been—which I am sure you will not. Have they or have they not been shown this for comment? It is a very, very simple question. Senator Xenophon and I want to know the answer.