Penny Wong (SA, Australian Labor Party, Shadow Minister for Corporate Governance and Responsibility) Share this | Hansard source

The Labor Party is inclined to support the Greens amendments in the interests of ensuring that persons who are subject to a rehabilitation program do have an appropriate appeal mechanism. I note the minister’s contribution in relation to this amendment, and there are a number of questions I would like to ask him. He describes three appeal processes: Centrelink, SSAT and AAT. I would like to ask him, very specifically: do those appeal mechanisms enable a review of a decision in relation to the design or conduct of a rehabilitation program? If so, where is that spelt out? In particular, will those appeal processes enable a review of a decision relating to a rehabilitation program provided by a non-CRS officer after the passage of this bill?