The Senate responses just smell of legalise so they continue to play games with everyone and stick to the obviously well advised strategy of differentiating between planning and implementing.
The fact is that this happened on a Saturday and any business requiring a large commitment of resources to effect "planning" needed some level of assurance before proceeding to have large resources on hand. You ever tried to get a courier on a Saturday let alone the number needed for this game???Similarly, it may be interesting to see when proofs were submitted to printers or how plans were "developed".
There needs to be some forensic digging here and not just token acceptance of what they say (and dont say) given the stakes involved.
This is all in addition to despatch of staff to overseas ports.
Everyone knows what happened here, everyone knows when the mindset was firmed up, everyone knows a process was implemented to cover some collective rear ends and now we need some Senators with the fortitude to dig until the truth is revealed as the credibility of any words from these Executive mouths and highly paid consultants is very low based on history to date.
If you dont believe that, ask why they answered in such a manner the Senate questions.The answers raise almost as many questions as they answered.