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

Senator Brandis, the potted history actually is useful in the context of people who might be discovering this issue for the first time. And you probably will not appreciate being reminded of the last time, I suspect, that you would have supported an amendment that I put into this place. It was to create greater transparency in the operations of the office and to keep it at arms-length from the Prime Minister's office. Support for that amendment I appreciate to this day. So I think it probably is useful to put that historical perspective because we were obviously a part and we were advocating very strenuously for the former government to put this office into the field. But if what you just told us is correct then why did you sign a recommendation last year, recommendation 41, proposing that the monitor review this draft bill?