Stephen Parry (President) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Wong, in fairness to the minister, you have raised the issue, quite fairly. The minister did get to his feet. What would normally happen is that, when a minister has become aware that, potentially, there may have been a misleading comment or a comment that is inaccurate in a minister's statement, a minister would normally come back to the chamber at the earliest opportunity to correct that. I think it is fair for the minister to at least have an opportunity to review records before he does make any form of correction, if indeed he needs to. So, you have raised it, the minister is aware of it and the minister will have an obligation, if he deems it necessary, to come back and correct the record, or indeed he may want to do that now by leave.