Shayne Neumann (Blair, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Indigenous Affairs) Share this | Hansard source

We thank the government for this amendment. We think this is a sensible amendment. We do think the minister should be accountable to both houses of parliament. It's not the sort of information which we think a secretary of department or any public servant should be dealing with, no matter how honest, full of integrity and capable they are. This is something an elected person, a minister of the crown, should be dealing with and we thank the government for the amendment.

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