Nick Sherry (Tasmania, Australian Labor Party, Minister for Superannuation and Corporate Law) Share this | Hansard source

I am just endeavouring to find a document which has at least some of that information. I know we have some information, because I had a document earlier, but you were not here and I did not come back to it. We are trying to find out where it has gone. I will—hopefully—finish on the issue of the coordinator-general. The coordinator-general will oversee the work of the Commonwealth and the states and territories in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. At the Commonwealth level the agencies will nominate by the end of February 2009 a senior national coordinator for each major infrastructure and stimulus measure. The national coordinators will have responsibility for ensuring that the milestones are achieved and that any implementation issues are addressed as a matter of urgency.

The issue you have raised, Senator Abetz, is to do with coordinators being public servants at the state level. I think the advantage would be that they would know the areas which they are coordinating. They would be familiar with them. If anyone got up to any tricks, I would have thought that they would be better placed to identify that. However—