Australian Sign Language Interpreters

The Hon. I.K. HUNTER (15:14): I am grateful for those answers, but I ask again: if you are surprised and find out that there is a lack of funding for an Auslan interpreter for Carols by Candlelight will you provide the funding for this year?

The Hon. J.M.A. LENSINK (Minister for Human Services) (15:14): As I've said, Labor members assert all sorts of things in this place and outside of this place and all over the place, and we know that they often aren't true. I will investigate the circumstances of this and see whether that is the case or not, but I would always take everything that any member of the Labor Party says to me with a grain of salt.