Nick McKim (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

The Greens will be supporting this motion. We do look forward to the Attorney attempting to explain his actions at midday today. I want to be very clear to the Senate, however, that it is still the view of the Australian Greens that this matter needs to be referred to the Legal and Constitutional Affairs References Committee for an inquiry. We do not believe that the Attorney simply getting up and making a statement ought to be the end of this matter and we will continue to push for that inquiry. We hope that we can achieve the agreement of the Senate for that to occur because we think that there are a number of people who need to give evidence before such an inquiry, including the Attorney but also other senior current and former government ministers as well as people in the Western Australian government and the relevant Commonwealth and Western Australian state government departments. In conclusion, Senator Wong, I think in (3) you said 'minister' not 'senator', so I am just seeking clarification that in fact it is 'senator' there.