Senate debates

Monday, 16 October 2023

Documents

Special Purpose Flights; Order for the Production of Documents

3:53 pm

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

by leave—The government will not be supporting this motion. The government notes that the Senate's website lists the order in question as complied with. We also note that the Senate agreed in this order that information should be provided to the extent that it can be provided, consistent with the advice from security agencies, which is exactly what the government has done. The government further notes that the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security had an opportunity to review a copy of the revised guidelines in compliance with Senate order No. 311. Senator Shoebridge may not like the answer he was given, but he received a very clear and thorough answer from the Deputy Prime Minister in compliance with that order.

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