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

Surely there must be departmental officials available who can advise the minister as to what input the department had in relation to the first bill, if I can describe it as such—and, in fact, I can; I understand it was the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Declared Fishing Activities) Bill. Who drafted it, on whose instructions and who had input into it? Then, the follow-up question would be, in relation to the second bill, which then changed its name to the Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Amendment (Declared Commercial Fishing Activities) Bill, who had input into that?