House debates Questions without Notice
Commonwealth Integrity Commission
Ms Catherine King Ballarat, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Development
2:48 pm
My question is to the Prime Minister. Does the Prime Minister's model of a national anticorruption commission have the power to investigate the purchase of land in the Leppington Triangle for 10 times its actual value?
Paul Fletcher Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts
I thank the shadow minister for her question. The facts are that our government has a well-developed model for a Commonwealth integrity commission. The full exposure draft of the bill underpinning our model is in the public domain and has been there for many months. We have committed $150 million in funding for our Commonwealth Integrity Commission, and we stand ready to proceed with the legislation should the Labor Party indicate that it wants to engage seriously on this matter rather than engage in the kinds of cheap political stunts that we have heard from the shadow Attorney-General and now the shadow minister for infrastructure.
Paul Fletcher Bradfield, Liberal Party, Minister for Communications, Urban Infrastructure, Cities and the Arts
We are getting on with engaging seriously with the important question of public policy, and we stand ready to introduce this legislation as soon as the Labor Party show us that they are ready to work seriously on this and work with us.