Senator BRANDIS (Queensland—Attorney-General, Vice-President of the Executive Council and Leader of the Government in the Senate) (14:09): Senator Farrell, another rhetorical overreach from you. As you know, the fact is that the High Court delivered its decision in the section 44 cases, on seven references, on 27 October. As I indicated in my answer yesterday and on previous occasions, Senator Parry rang me the following Monday morning, shortly after 9 am Queensland time, to tell me that, after considering the High Court's decision, he thought he may have a problem and had taken urgent steps to make inquiries in relation to the UK Home Office. Senator Kim Carr: He'd known for weeks. Senator BRANDIS: I take your interjection, Senator Carr. There are some who say, against our former colleague Stephen Parry, that he ought to have acted sooner. Indeed, the Prime Minister—and Senator Cormann—has made that observation. His position was that it wasn't clear to him, until the High Court had made its decision, what the position was.