Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Hansard source

Those sorts of questions do go to the nature of the advice. It would be silly in the extreme for the government, with the sorts of threats that we have been receiving from the tobacco industry, to be going to the nature of the legal advice that we may have. I am somewhat astonished, to be frank, given your profession, prior to entering this place, as a lawyer and particularly a government lawyer.

Senator Fierravanti-Wells interjecting—

The TEMPORARY CHAIRMAN: Senator Fierravanti-Wells, you should wait to receive the call before you speak. You now have the call.