Simon Birmingham (SA, Liberal Party, Minister for Finance) Share this | Hansard source

Senator Waters, I thanked you earlier today, as I did everybody else across the chamber, for the constructive way in which you've engaged on these matters. I'm disappointed that you have raised that question in that way. As I have said publicly today, my office asked the Australian Human Rights Commission last week to contact all those for whom they had contact details who had participated in Commissioner Jenkins's review. My understanding is that they did that. That is my understanding. I can't speak for contacting those individuals because, as you well know, we put in place legal protections for all those who participated and so the government has no way of contacting all those who participated in the review. We did, as you knew we had said we would do and as I had said publicly we would do, ask the AHRC to do that. My advice is that that's what they did.