Jacqui Lambie (Tasmania, Jacqui Lambie Network) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I move:

That the Senate—

(a) notes that:

(i) on 6 February 2025, the Senate agreed to order for the production of documents no. 760, relating to access to documents dealing with Australian content quotas and/or or associated models between the office of the Minister for the Arts and 9 commercial entities, and

(ii) to date the Government has refused to comply with the order and has advanced unacceptable public interest immunity claims; and

(b) requires the Minister representing the Minister for the Arts to attend the Senate after question time on Thursday, 13 February 2025, to provide an explanation, of no more than 5 minutes, for the failure to comply with the order and the misuse of a public interest immunity claim, and that:

(i) any senator may move to take note of the explanation, and

(ii) any such motion may be debated for no longer than 30 minutes, have precedence over all business until determined, and senators may speak to the motion for not more than 5 minutes each.

Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

I seek leave to make a short statement.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

Leave is granted for one minute.

Tim Ayres (NSW, Australian Labor Party, Assistant Minister for Trade) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The government will be opposing this motion. The government firmly rejects Senator Lambie's assertion that we've not complied with the previous order. The documents have already been provided to Senator Lambie with appropriate redactions in accordance with the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act. The government also subsequently provided the documents to the Senate with appropriate redactions under public interest immunity. The redactions were made in order to appropriately protect the commercially sensitive data and personal information of various stakeholders.

Sue Lines (President) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

The question is that general business notice of motion No. 790 standing in the name of Senator Lambie be agreed to.