Rex Patrick (SA, Centre Alliance) Share this | Hansard source

In the normal course of negotiations of course you don't want to disclose anything that is confidential, but in fact the other parties will all know what your starting position is. It's not as though you're holding something secret from someone else. So, how could you possibly suggest that the Senate and the public couldn't know, when all of the parties do? There's no confidentiality associated with this.