Scott Ludlam (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I made this assertion before, and it is probably a little unfair to do so without testing your views on it directly. Have you held back on the appointment of that monitor consequent on the passage of this legislation—that is, were you seeking to avoid the monitor’s evaluation of these matters? Is it the case that you preferred to get this legislative package through before you held the monitor up? Will we be able to find evidence anywhere that the government in fact delayed the installation of this office until such time as these rather feeble bills—particularly the first one—cleared the parliament?