Christine Milne (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I rise to respond to the Privileges Committee report. I note that in that report the committee states that it:

... does not have such evidence before it in this case. While the allegations made in Senator Kroger’s letter are serious ones, the committee does not consider that the material submitted to support those allegations amounts to more than circumstantial evidence. The committee considers that any questions which do arise as a result of that material are answered by the responses of the three people named in the terms of reference.

It goes on to say:

Where Senator Kroger’s letter raises a question around the perceptions arising from Senator Brown personally discussing these matters, it merely invites the inference that Senator Brown entered into an improper arrangement, rather than providing evidence.

It goes on to say:

The committee considers that the evidence before it does not establish—