Peter Whish-Wilson (Tasmania, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

I mentioned in my second reading—and we've gone through it in a bit of detail today—that the TOR for this new body, or the details, haven't been worked out yet or disclosed. In conversations with the minister, we've repeatedly raised concerns about loss of jobs, particularly with the SCT being merged into this entity. It does concern me that a location hasn't even been picked for where this is going to be. If you've got employees in one town, like Melbourne, it is obviously going to be a lot harder for some of them to move if it's going to be somewhere else. Can you say why they haven't decided yet where the location of this is going to be? Will you give assurances here today that, if there are employees at the SCT that aren't going to go to AFCA, for whatever reason, they will be redeployed within the public service?