Michael Ronaldson (Victoria, Liberal Party, Minister for Veterans’ Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

Thank you, Mr President, I was just getting to the question but I thought it might be of interest to the house that this promise has been met.

An opposition senator interjecting—

Thank you very much. Can I just make it quite clear: this government is committed to a stand-alone department of veterans' affairs, but what Senator Farrell clearly does not understand, which is not surprising because he represents a party that did not even have a veterans' affairs policy before the last election. That is—