Eric Abetz (Tasmania, Liberal Party, Shadow Minister for Employment and Workplace Relations) Share this | Hansard source

asked the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry, upon notice, on 2 August 2012, with reference to the answer to Question no. 19 from the Budget Estimates hearings of the Rural and Regional and Transport Legislation Committee in May 2012, and given that the question did not seek the content of the legal advice:

(1) Was legal advice provided to Cabinet prior to the 7 June announcement?

(2) Has the Government received a claim for compensation as a result of its decision to impose a full ban on live export cattle to Indonesia?

(3) (a) Why was the draft advice never finalised; and (b) was this because Cabinet made a decision prior to any potential finalisation of the advice?