APY Lands

The Hon. F. PANGALLO (14:51): Supplementary: is the minister comfortable that no females have made the shortlist?

The Hon. K.J. MAHER (Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Attorney-General, Minister for Industrial Relations and Public Sector) (14:51): I am not aware who has made the shortlist or not and I am not aware of the circumstances in which they have made it. I know that the honourable member has made an assertion about who has made a shortlist and why they have made it in his view or people passing on information to him, but certainly I haven't got any of that information.