Senator SCULLION (Northern Territory—Minister for Indigenous Affairs and Leader of The Nationals in the Senate) (14:01): Senator, I thank you for the question. I did not refuse to lodge the annual report under the circumstances that your question would indicate. Perhaps, if you are looking through the FOI documents, I might point you to document No. 8. You will see in it that it says the minister has no authority to approve the annual report as the ILC is independent of government; he can only do that by issuing a general direction under the ATSI Act. And I— Senator Wong: Tell us which is correct? Which statement is correct? Senator SCULLION: Well, we have these interjections from the Leader of the Opposition in the Senate. I have spoken very clearly about this matter lately, in a statement on the record. I pointed you to the statement yesterday. At no time did I refuse. The documents that they are selectively quoting from were documents between ILC individuals. I have had no knowledge of those. I did not at any time refuse to table the ILC report, nor did I have the authority to do so.