Ian Macdonald (Queensland, Liberal Party, Shadow Parliamentary Secretary Assisting the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate) Share this | Hansard source

by leave—I move:

That the Senate take note of the statement.

I also, very briefly, want to urge the relevant minister, Senator Wong, to do what her more senior colleagues do and extend the courtesy to members of the opposition, if she is going to make a correction to an answer which she completely confused, of just letting the person who asked the question know so they can listen to it. In this particular instance I rang her office twice, having been told that she had corrected an answer, to try to find out what it was. I received no assistance. Other new ministers have taken the exact opposite approach and made a point of ringing me and writing to me when answers needed to be corrected, and I would just urge Senator Wong to do that in the future.

Question agreed to.