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

There are so many false premises in that short question, Senator Watt. Might I remind you that what we are talking about is a piece of state legislation that was supported not only by the Liberal-National Party government of Western Australia but by the Labor opposition and even by the Greens, because what the Western Australian state government, with the support of the opposition, wanted to do was to bring a winding-up that had already been going on for 25 years and had already cost more than $200 million in professional costs that the creditors would never see to an end. That was what it was about. In any event—