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

I will take it as a learning experience that the longer version was just as useless and pointless as the shorter version. I appreciate that greatly, Minister.

Was the bill being rushed through the committee process after spending a year or more behind the scenes being consulted on to meet the timetable for the AUSMIN meeting occurring in November? I can see the adviser shaking her head already. Can the Minister assure us that that had nothing to do at all with the visit of our alliance colleagues, secretaries Panetta and Clinton in November?