David Shoebridge (NSW, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

Minister, have you been briefed on the cost to the Commonwealth of defending, just in the two years 2021-22 and 2022-23, the more than 460 IAA decisions under the coalition's unfair Fast-Track that were challenged in the Federal Court, found to be unlawful and overturned? Do you know how many endless millions of dollars of Commonwealth money were wasted defending unlawful decisions from the unfair Fast-Track proposal put forward by the coalition? As I said, in just those two years, there were more than 460 decisions of the coalition's Fast-Track IAA process found to be unlawful and overturned.

If you have any idea about the millions of dollars the coalition wasted on legal costs defending the indefensible, do you also know how long it took, what the median time was, for the coalition to drag those cases through the Federal Court unsuccessfully? How many years was the median time was for the coalition to defend the indefensible in the Federal Court?