House debates

Thursday, 5 August 2021

Questions without Notice

National Integrity Commission

3:02 pm

Photo of Mark DreyfusMark Dreyfus (Isaacs, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Attorney General) Share this | | Hansard source

My question is to the minister for urban infrastructure. Has the minister been interviewed by fraud detectives in the course of the Australian Federal Police's investigation of the Leppington Triangle land deal? Wouldn't it be perfectly sensible to establish an anticorruption commission so that ministers and public servants who rip off taxpayers are held to account?

3:03 pm

Photo of Paul FletcherPaul Fletcher (Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts) Share this | | Hansard source

No, I have not been interviewed, and on what possible grounds would I be, I might further ask? I also make the point that, in relation to the broader question the shadow Attorney-General has asked, our well-developed plans for a Commonwealth integrity commission are widely understood.