Jacinta Collins (Victoria, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Cabinet Secretary) Share this | Hansard source

My question is the Attorney-General, Senator Brandis. I refer to the failure of the Attorney-General and the foreign minister to correct the record for a full parliamentary week after misleading evidence was provided on the provision of the Monis letter to the Martin Place siege review. Can the Attorney-General confirm that the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet advised his department at 12:15 pm on Monday, 1 June that they had not received the letter? Can he confirm that, at 5:30 pm that Monday, the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet asked the Attorney-General's Department when the false claim would be corrected? Why did the Attorney-General ignore the advice on that Monday from the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and fail to correct the record until the afternoon after question time of Thursday, 4 June?