Senate debates
Thursday, 1 March 2012
Statements
Questions Without Notice
3:02 pm
George Brandis (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Attorney-General) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I seek leave to make a short statement.
Leave granted.
In my question earlier to Senator Evans I said that the Prime Minister had not visited Queensland for more than four months. What I should have said is that the Prime Minister has not visited Brisbane for more than four months.
3:03 pm
Jan McLucas (Queensland, Australian Labor Party, Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities and Carers) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source
I seek leave to make a short statement.
Leave granted.
I wonder if Senator Brandis knows that Queensland is the second most decentralised state in the country, second only to Tasmania, and in our view—and I hope it is a shared view, Senator Brandis, Tasmania does not count.