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

Thanks, Senator Scarr. Again, I don't it's accurate to pinpoint two points in time when analysing these matters. What we know from when the AAT was in operation was that it prioritised the easy cases and often left the hard cases to rot. We are now doing those old, hard cases, and they are taking longer to resolve as a result. That's leading to a longer average time to finalisation because of the dereliction of the previous government in dealing with some of those harder cases.