Anthony Chisholm (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Education) Share this | Hansard source

The government will not be supporting this motion. The tragic incident involving the loss of four members of the Australian Defence Force occurred just over a week ago. Recovery efforts continue. As the Deputy Prime Minister and the Chief of the Australian Defence Force said last week:

…there will be a full investigation and we will come to understand exactly what happened and learn the lessons from it.

The government is committed to transparency, and we will be transparent about that. While recovery efforts at sea continue, it is not the time to move motions seeking documents that may form part of the investigation into this tragic incident. This investigation will rightly be conducted by experts—not by Senator Shoebridge through the media.