Jordon Steele-John (WA, Australian Greens) Share this | Hansard source

From 2010 to her appointment to the royal commission, Ms Barbara Bennett PSM was a senior public servant working for the Department of Social Services, the very agency, she would be aware, that has direct oversight of the National Disability Insurance Scheme. Given that this process has at times, by the government's very own admission, failed and led to participants being harmed, can you understand the frustration felt that such individuals would be appointed to a position to investigate their own department's actions?