Deborah O'Neill (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Hansard source

Can I just comment on the process that's going on here, as it concerns me. Senator Di Natale is having to ask these questions here with no papers and with no documentation. The minister is looking over his shoulder to his adviser, as if saying: 'Well, am I appointing them? Am I not appointing them? Who do they report to?' We didn't even get an answer to that question. Well, they don't report to the minister, apparently. Well, maybe they do or maybe they don't. Maybe we'll go back to look at this and find out that was wrong.