David Johnston (WA, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—in contrast to many of his colleagues in the Gillard government, Senator Carr has the respect and reverence for this chamber to come in and to correct the record. I think it is important he did that. I want to compliment him for doing that and I thank him for that. This is a very sorry set of circumstances where a good man has been stood aside for some 12 months now with this report languishing not on his desk but on the Minister for Defence's desk. I thank him for coming into the chamber and correcting the record.