Chris Evans (WA, Australian Labor Party, Leader of the Government in the Senate) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Mr President, I have checked the record Senator Birmingham so helpfully pointed out, and he is correct. I misspoke yesterday in answer to a question of his. I got excited, obviously, and in my enthusiasm to answer Senator Birmingham’s question on one occasion I used the words ‘fully compensated’ and on the other occasion the term ‘full compensation’. Both are wrong, as I have indicated to him, in terms of the compensation. So describing it as ‘fully’ compensated and ‘full compensation’ was not right. I should have used the word ‘compensation’ without those two words. I apologise to the Senate and therefore seek to correct the record.