Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

I move:

(1) That the Senate notes that:

(a) under the guidelines for the use of special purpose aircraft, the Minister for Defence is responsible for tabling the schedule of special purpose flights " …in June (for the six months ending the previous 31 December) and December (for the six months ending the previous 30 June)";

(b) regrettably, under the Abbott-Turnbull-Morrison Government, the schedule has routinely been tabled late, in one case over eight months late;

(c) the most recent schedule published at https://www.defence.gov.au/Publications/Parliament/ is for the six months ending 30 June 2017;

(d) consistent with the guidelines, previous governments tabled schedules on the last sitting day of June and December each year; and

(e) the most recently tabled schedule for the six months ending 31 December 2018 was not tabled until 28 August 2019.

(2) That there be laid on the table by the Minister for Defence, by no later

than 9am on 13 February 2020, the schedule of special purpose flights for the period 1 January to 30 June 2019.

And I seek leave to make a short statement.