Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I am afraid those comments cannot go unanswered. I was proposing that we move on, but the minister has managed to get completely under my skin. Some of those responses, with respect, were really pretty cheap. In the migration debate, as in this one, we managed to get through most of the day without accusing each other of not caring about the issues. Minister, I asked you for evidence and you fired back at me a bunch of stuff about philosophy and ideology and Green Left Weekly. To be quite frank, evidence would have been better. If you can show us that this measure helps the issues that I believe everybody in this chamber cares about—the things that you reeled off—then I will go and vote on the other side. But you have not been able to show us anything.

I would like to put one specific question that has come through from some people outside the building that I am relieved to remind myself does still exist. It is that research has been commissioned by the minister on income management from a number of academic organisations—unfortunately, they do not say who they are—in the NT. Has that report been received by the minister and will it be made publicly available?