Over in Environment and Communications estimates, Pauline Hanson has decided to make a menace of herself, grandstanding over why minister Murray Watt was on his phone (it is normal for ministers to be in touch with others outside the room during estimates hearings and the questions were not being directed to him, but senior public servants)

Liberal senator Dean Smith is trying to work out why an entire section of an incoming government brief – the senate has ordered the production of those documents three times, and have been denied. A FOI request has also been denied (it was completely held back, not even redacted).

Watt has taken on notice, the request to have the document released to the committee.