Mathias Cormann (WA, Liberal Party, Vice-President of the Executive Council) Share this | Hansard source

I can't give you a blanket answer to that question, because it depends on whether or not we are able to get the detail of any proposed improvements right, and there is a process of consultation to be gone through. I would just point out that Labor announced support for a national integrity commission about 12 months ago, saying at the time that they had gone through 12 months of consultation, yet to date we haven't seen a single proposal on the table anywhere. We haven't seen any proposed legislation from the Labor Party at all. All we get from the Labor Party is the occasional stunt in pursuit of the occasional headline; there's actually no substance. In fact, all we've got from the Labor Party is one stunt after another, without any substance. These are very complex matters of the law, and it's very important that the strong anti-corruption arrangements that are in place now are not inadvertently weakened by insufficiently considered proposals that might come up from time to time. (Time expired)