Murray Watt (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry) Share this | Hansard source

Again, I'll have to take the precise date on notice, but, as I said in my earlier answer, policy design work around the response to the High Court decision actually began before the High Court decision was handed down. I am happy to come back to you on notice about the date that the drafting instructions were issued for the community safety order regime, but it would be reasonable to expect that final drafting instructions were issued after the High Court reasons, because it was necessary to have those reasons in order to make sure that this regime was constitutional.