Anthony Albanese (Grayndler, Australian Labor Party, Prime Minister) Share this | Hansard source

I thank the member for her question and for her work in ensuring that Australia will have a national anticorruption commission. The member, of course, introduced a private member's bill in the last term of parliament. We tried to get it debated because the government said it had a bill, but it never introduced it. We've introduced a bill. We had an inquiry that the member for Indi chaired. We adopted the recommendations of that inquiry—all of them. You have legislation and you then have an inquiry. If you adopt all the recommendations of the inquiry, of which the member for Indi was the chair, with respect, I think we have done exactly what you should expect the government to do—sorry, you were the deputy chair of that committee. We've done exactly what came through the process of that committee inquiry, which the deputy chair of the committee would be very conscious of.

What we haven't done is support amendments from various quarters in this chamber to this bill. We had a bill after we had extensive consultations, after we had a committee process, after we had recommendations and after we adopted all of them. I stand by our position. I sincerely hope the Senate adopts our position, which has been put forward. We'll consider amendments on their merits. I've had discussions with the Attorney-General and with some crossbench senators about amendments that we will support.

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