Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:00): I don't accept that that's what he said and I don't accept that that was the issue to which he was responding when he made those remarks. I have so much experience of Labor senators misrepresenting and misquoting statements by members of other places that I don't accept it, Senator Gallagher. But I tell you what I do accept. I do accept what Mr Bill English, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, had to say about this sordid affair when he said in question time in the New Zealand parliament yesterday: These are serious issues—to interfere in another country's politics—and it appears there have been significant misjudgments by the member's fellow Opposition party— a reference to the Australian Labor Party. I also accept what the Leader of the Opposition in New South Wales, Ms Jacinda Ardern, had to say when she said: The PRESIDENT: Senator Hinch, a point of order? Senator Hinch: Ms Ardern is not the Premier of New South Wales. She's the Labour leader in New Zealand. The PRESIDENT: That is a debating point, Senator Hinch. Attorney-General, you have the call. Senator BRANDIS: So Jacinda Ardern, the leader of the New Zealand Labour Party said that, when she saw reference made to the New Zealand Labor Party, she immediately sought to clarify what those connections were. I learnt that one of my members of parliament had asked two questions that related to issues around citizenship. Mr Hipkins should never have asked those questions – I have made that absolutely clear to him, and he acknowledges he shouldn't have asked them. Ms Ardern went on to say: My hope in this is to have been absolutely clear and transparent with those involved around our level of knowledge, the level of involvement and to be clear again that regardless of whether or not we knew the basis on which those questions were being asked, they should never have been asked. (Time expired) The PRESIDENT: Senator Gallagher, a supplementary question.