Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I am doing this a bit on the run because it was only today that I was informed that people saw this as a big issue. It is not something that anyone has been raising with me since I have been in the portfolio.

We will be able to do that by the end of the year. I am happy to set the wheels in motion. We have not had submissions on this and we have not had people raising it with us, but I will get the department to get out there. I just said to the department for Senator Feeney to represent me in saying we are happy to take it up, and if there is a problem we are happy to address it. I do not have an announcement in terms of the review, but I am happy to let you know.

We will put something in place that allows us to go out and test the waters, and to see whether this is a big issue, or what the aspects of the issue are. I will write to each of the senators with an interest in the matter when I have had a look at how best to do that. I am sorry I cannot be more helpful. As I said, this was raised with me this morning, but we have undertaken to do a review and I will write to you in the next week or two about how I intend to conduct that, once I have worked it out.