George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Attorney-General) Share this | Hansard source

There is only one minister's behaviour that has attracted adverse notice in this latest engagement, Senator Gallacher, and that is the behaviour of Mr Ian Hunter, your Labor Party colleague in the South Australian government, who behaved disgracefully and in a manner which any Australian elector would not expect any minister on either side of politics to behave. But leaving that matter aside, I have not seen Mr Pasin's remarks. I do not comment on remarks that I have not seen. But I can assure you that the position of the Australian government, represented by both the Prime Minister and the Deputy Prime Minister, is to deliver on the Murray-Darling Basin Plan, to make sure the balances of which I spoke in my answer to your initial question are appropriately struck and to deal with other political parties and other jurisdictions civilly.

I ask that further questions be placed upon the Notice Paper.